Robots Used to Toxic Testing

This yellow robot has the potential to save a few animals from being tested on. The robot is capable of testing thousand of cell based tests at a time, which means that results can be given faster rather than the years it takes through testing on animals.

Three divisions of the NIH and EPA — the National Toxicology Program, the Chemical Genomics Center (both under the NIH) and the National Center for Computational Toxicology (under the EPA) — agreed to “coordinate their resources to better identify toxicity pathways, select chemicals for testing, analyze and interpret data, and promote their findings to scientific and regulatory communities.”

Animal testing will still be carried out in these agencies; even though this research is expensive it still doesn’t give a clear indication of how humans will react.

In a nutshell, testing on animals has not been stopped, but fewer will be tested on. Not what a lot of people want to hear, but it’s better than nothing.

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