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What is animal research?
Advancing scientific
knowledge
Studying disease
and developing
medicines
Assessing the safety
of chemicals
Breeding
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Testing a weedkiller on
rats and dogs.
Animals need to be bred
with special characteristics
for use in research.
Destroying a gene in mice and
studying how this affects their
development and behaviour.
Developing a vaccine for
polio using mice.
Advancing scientific knowledge
Destroying a gene in mice and
studying how this affects their
development and behaviour
So lots of animals with the
same characteristics are
available for research
Why?
Assessing the safety of
chemicals
Testing a weedkiller on
rats and dogs
To gain an understanding of how
genes work. This might help
develop treatments for genetic
disorders.
So chemicals don’t do any harm
to people who use them.
So vaccines can be developed
to protect people from illness
Studying disease and
developing medicines
Breeding
Developing a vaccine for polio
using mice
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Animals need to be bred with
special characteristics for use
in research
Number of animals used for different
types of research in 2005
Other 2%
(44,289)
Breeding 35%
(1,027,150)
Assessing the
safety of
chemicals 4%
(103,822)
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Advancing
scientific
knowledge 32%
(939,766)
Studying
disease and
developing
medicines 27%
(781,162)