Recently, I read an article ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01685-7 ) mentioning that Sanger Institute closed its animal facility because they wanted to move their research to cell lines and organoids. However, isn't it too early?
Since the environments of cell lines and organoids are too simple to represent the complexity in animal body, we do the research on animals and the results can give us the hint of the biological process in human body. This really help us to understand the interplay in our body. Is it a good idea to close animal facility before we find a good alternative now?
The only real reason why they closed mouse facility is because of the funding. It's capitalism. Read: "In the November 2018 letter, an unsigned version of which Nature has seen, the scientists said that staff shortages were risking the facility’s high welfare standards and that the lack of trained staff meant animals were being culled because they could not be used." It is always about money, as everything else nowadays.
I agree with you, it's too early and it sucks what they did.
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