Benefits of Animal Research in Medical Research

  • Germ Theory of Disease

  • Malaria-parasite's life-cycle discovered

  • MIce and Genetics

  • Transplant surgery first performed on a human

  • Diphtheria prevented by immunisation

  • Vitamin A discovered

  • Blood Transfusion

  • Neurotransmission demonstrated

  • Insulin isolated

  • Pernicious anaemia

  • Heparin used as an anticoagulant

  • Penicillin protects mice against infection

  • Dialysis developed for kidney failure

  • Polio vaccine developed

  • Cardiac pacemakers

  • Artificial heart valves

  • Heart transplants successful in humans

  • Smallpox eradicated through vaccination

  • Leprosy treatments developed

  • AZT - the first drug treatment for HIV

  • Hib-meningitis vaccine

  • Cloning Dolly the sheep

  • Sequencing & analysis of the mouse genome

  • First tissue-engineered whole-organ transplant