Testing new treatments in other animals can help us spot complications or potential pitfalls, but the results don’t always carry over to humans, which means that safely going from animal to human trials is a lot more complicated than you might think.
Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
Camera Operator: Hiroka Matsushima
SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
https://www.fda.gov/ForPatients/Approvals/Drugs/default.htm
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/downloads/reports/Annual-Report-Animal-Usage-by-FY2017.pdf
http://www.the-aps.org/mm/SciencePolicy/AnimalResearch/Publications/animals/quest5.htm
https://academic.oup.com/ilarjournal/article/41/3/133/708856
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782548/
http://ko.cwru.edu/info/breeding_strategies_manual.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00228-018-02607-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19896825
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK224550/
https://www.aalas.org/iacuc/laws-policies-guidelines/international-government
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782548/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.594945?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=oriridcrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pubpubmed&
Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Researcher_checks_test_tubes.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knockout_Mice5006-300.jpg
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/experimental-mice-is-sleeping-in-the-ivc-cage-gm639064224-114975933
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cartoon-gray-rat-vector-illustration-cute-sitting-rat-isolated-on-white-background-gm1152663845-312807557
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/singing-common-chimpanzee-gm980054416-266285628
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-3d-cells-of-human-or-animal-science-concept-gm1024193638-274835322
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/over-the-shoulder-shot-of-senior-medical-scientist-working-with-ct-brain-scan-images-gm1050311748-280855413
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/immune-system-gm951668074-259777128
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-skull-gm930199636-255048921
Watch Now
