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by chuie 3986 days ago
Would your product be a suitable replacement for mouse models? https://edge.org/response-detail/25429
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The short answer is, ideally yes, but not completely. The animal models of cancer are poor at predicting how the drug will work in a human, but where they have value is in evaluation of drug safety. So, we envision that the toxicity studies would still be done in animals, but near-human, organ-specific models would ultimately replace animal studies of drug efficacy.