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| Research funded by Asthma UK has led to the development of a vaccine treatment that can prevent asthma-like symptoms in mice. Dr Noble and his team at King's College London have been studying allergic mechanisms in mice and investigating whether it is possible to regulate the immune system's response to potential allergic triggers. |
I have been thinking about animal studies and how scientists use them to point to safety and efficay when it comes to vaccines. This makes no sense to me. Comparing mice to humans makes no sense. Humans and animals have different immune systems, different DNA different everything. Animals have different disaeses than humans. How can scientists hope to cure human diseases by giving animals diseases that they woud not encounter in nature and then give them drugs or medicine or vaccines and assume that the effect would be the same as in a human?? It is totally illogical, yet is the basis for the majority of medical research!






