HPS200H1 Lecture Notes - Genetically Modified Organism, Xenotransplantation, Transplant Rejection
16 Mar 2014
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This topic has seen a lot of legislation. Not many people cared about this topic before the 1960s. Humane societies didn"t have a lot of legislative power before the 1960s. Today, the legislation is rich and applied vigorously. Issues of animal welfare in science arise in: Legislative protocols are considerably low, because this is new. E. g. a valve replaced in your heart may have come from a pig. E. g. engineering an animal so that it has as close as possible a genetic identity to an individual, and then take an organ from that animal and place it in a human (lessens chance of organ rejection) Bio-factories = animals used to produce useful compound for humans. This is highly controversial, and very new. Greatest use = bacteria --> e. g. insulin. You have to be sure that a pharmaceutical is safe before humans can use it. If it is safe for animals, it then goes to human trials.
