Some people argue that all experimentation on animals is bad and should be outlawed. However, others believe that important scientific discoveries can be made from animal experiments. Can experimentation on animals be justified? Are there any alternatives?

Progress in biology and medicine requires a lot of

experiments

, including experimentation on

animals

, which brings out a discussion in the public with two opposite attitudes regarding

this

topic. There are a lot of reasons for carrying out in vivo

experiments

, but

also

some of them could be avoided because of alternatives. Investigation of medicines and drugs is a long and demanding process

due to

the fact that in the end, the human will be a customer of

this

product, and researchers should be assured that a new-investigated drug has few side effects and does not have any harmful effects on the human body. The

clinic

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stage of drug research demands the testing of a system influence of that agent, which is implemented by using laboratory

animals

. These results could be projected on a human organism with

further

analysis and implementation in clinical practice.

However

, laboratory

animals

are protected by laws of bioethics.

This

discipline legislates basic rules about the raising of lab

animals

and requirements for an experiment.

Therefore

, the risk of any harm to laboratory species goes down.

Nevertheless

, there are alternatives, but only in cosmetics, because

this

field of research does not require the investigation of side and system effects.

For example

, nowadays there is artificial skin, that consists of epithelium, which is identical analogy of human tissue. It is widely utilized by cosmetic factories in a lot of developed countries, which leads to a reduction of

animals

in

experiments

.

To sum up

, human health demands sacrifices,

such

as the utilisation of lab

animals

, which is an unreplaceable stage in some

experiments

in the pharmaceutical field.

However

, there are some alternatives,

such

as artificial skin, which can be used in a wide range of the testing of cosmetic products, avoiding in vivo

experiments

.