For years ACSH has been pointing out the limits of animal testing in predicting human disease risk. So we were pleased to see an article in the recent issue of Harvard Magazine Mice Aren t Men, reporting on a study which asked if the bodies of mice react to disease and trauma in the same way that human bodies do. The study concluded that the answer was no.
The Harvard article about the study commented, The finding is stunning because mice have long been considered a model organism for researching drugs for use in people ¦. The findings ¦ are generating controversy because of the challenge they present to the scientific status quo: the paper was actually declined by Science and Nature before being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
