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What is animal research? Advancing scientific knowledge Studying disease and developing medicines Assessing the safety of chemicals Breeding © Nuffield Foundation 2011 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 © Nuffield Foundation 2011 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) © Nuffield Foundation 2011 Advancing scientific knowledge 32% (939,766) Studying disease and developing medicines 27% (781,162)