Why do we need to experiment on animals?

Published on May 2, 2024

In a detector.fm podcast, Michael Gotthardt, Head of the Translational Cardiology and Functional Genomics lab, explains why he must use animals in his research. “We can’t observe the development of an illness in cells because it isn’t a cell that is sick, but the whole person,” he says.

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