'3-D' test could reduce reliance on animals for testing asthma and allergy medications
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 21:31
in Health & Medicine
To determine whether new medicines are safe and effective for humans, researchers must first test them in animals, which is costly and time-consuming, as well as ethically challenging. Scientists now report that they've developed a simple, '3-D' laboratory method to test asthma and allergy medications that mimics what happens in the body, which could help reduce the need for animal testing.