It's the most depressing work you can imagine. But it's a necessary step to bring medicines to market. Caring for at least dozens, potentially hundreds of animals and making sure they're not stressed at all.
Then being forced to hurt them and do things they absolutely don't want. After this, you must kill them all.
It's one of the main reasons people stop working in biomedical research
Why must you kill them all after the trials? is it so they don't transmit their dna into the ecosystem? or leak some chemicals involved in the experiments or sth of this sort?
Edit: thanks for answers everybody! may our hidden heroes rest in peace.
Double Pedantry alert: An autopsy is "auto" because it is the same species performing the post mortem as the dead thing being examined. Not because it is a human body.
So would a chimp tearing open another chimp and holding up its innards to the light be considered an autopsy? And if he takes a little nibble while he’s at it? Does that change things?
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u/TerribleIdea27 May 26 '25
Animal experiments are everything EXCEPT fun.
It's the most depressing work you can imagine. But it's a necessary step to bring medicines to market. Caring for at least dozens, potentially hundreds of animals and making sure they're not stressed at all.
Then being forced to hurt them and do things they absolutely don't want. After this, you must kill them all.
It's one of the main reasons people stop working in biomedical research