Currently, animals like rats and mice are used to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs.
This process has a failure rate of more than 99 per cent for human clinical trials testing new drugs for neurological diseases, and also creates significant animal rights issues.
At the end of last year, the US government signed into law the FDA Modernisation Act, which removed a requirement to test new drugs …
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