• Question: Do you use animals in your line of work?

    Asked by 666bekiibooblack666 to timcraggs, Stuart, Mark, Jo, Donna on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by leejp02, graceyduff12, becky25, beth2, plumbsj01.
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      Tim Craggs answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t use animals, unless you count project students! No, we do not use animals in our research, though there are some areas of science, like drug testing, which do require the use of animals. There is a lot of work going on to try and remove the need for animal testing and many things can now be simulated in a computer rather than tested on animals, but there are some things, like drugs, which still need to be animal tested at the moment.

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      Donna MacCallum answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      My work does involve the use of animals. I work in trying to discover how our bodies are able to fight infections (or not) – and sometimes we can only investigate this with the use of animal models of disease. We do follow very strict guidelines and use the smallest numbers of animals that we can.

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      Mark Lancaster answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      No never – although a mouse once got instantaneously frozen by liquid helium (at -270 degrees) when it bit into a superconducting cable at the Tevatron collider where I work ! There was a loud bang and then the mouse was found frozen and looking rather surprised….

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      Joanna Buckley answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t personally. I wouldn’t like to… I love animals.

      But I know that later down the line in the area I work in, they do use animals to test that the antibacterial dressings work. I don’t really like to think about it but I know it needs to be done.

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