Doctors and scientists from the Safer Medicines Campaign believe that human biology-based tests can predict the safety of human medicines more accurately than conventional animal tests. Neena Brizmohun talks to the UK-based group about its plans to put this belief to the test.
Draft UK legislation introduced in the House of Commons on 26 January is calling for a definitive answer on whether traditional animal tests for evaluating drug safety should be replaced by human biology-based tests 1 ,2...
