Animal testing is a tricky subject in society. Many people recognize that the practice helps pharmaceutical and cosmetics manufacturers assess whether their products cause side effects in humans, but they also frequently wonder if there’s another way.
Drugs generally have to go through animal testing before human trials start, but one of the difficulties is that a side effect in an animal doesn’t necessarily mean the same side effect will show up in human test subjects.
One project involves building a database that shows the consistency between adverse events in both animals and humans.
This article highlights the scope for developing therapeutics with new innovative, alternative approaches. The current trillion dollars pharmaceutical industry is in peril where the current drug development pipeline is slow, inefficient and incapable of being extended to multi-combination drug therapies as well as minimally focused on prevention. The complex modeling of diseases and biological functions has been limited because of the inability to integrate large scale molecular pathways.
Watch this Video to understand how recent advances provide breakthrough technology for doing scalable modeling of complex molecular systems to dramatically accelerate drug discovery and development.