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Difficult diseases

I do not think it is ethical to treat animals as resources that can be used for human benefit.
There is, and damage to the rat brain is symbolic of attitudes towards nature that limit the future
of humans and non-human animals, putting lives at risk. He expressed concern that this could
open the door to advanced cognition in animals, Julian Savulescu, a bioethicist at the National
University of Singapore, told Technology Review. The rats in the study showed no evidence of
advanced cognition or human behavior, Paşca told Technology Review.Regardless of ethical
concerns, he said studies like this could significantly advance drug development. , believed to
help combat complex human diseases. “Difficult diseases require a bold approach,” he says.
"To study these unique human conditions, we need to build human models that recapitulate
more aspects of the human brain."

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