EU Project Aims To Boost Drug Testing Reliability By Replacing Monkeys With Pigs

 
• By Vibha Sharma

A new EU public-private initiative is developing tools to help clarify when mini- and micropig models can be used as viable alternatives to non-human primates in non-clinical drug safety testing.

The Göttingen minipig is a breed of small swine, (Sus scrofa domestica.) View of a mini pig in its enclosure.
Pigs are better suited to laboratory conditions than non-human primates (Shutterstock)

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