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Asked by chl0e to Alan, Caspar, Murray, Sarah on 23 Mar 2011.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 23 Mar 2011:
No my work does not involve any animal testing what so ever. You see, because the doctor will be taking a sample of the patients blood and then doing the test in a test tube, then the patient won’t be exposed to any of the dyes so there are no safety risks or side effects. Once I’m ready to start trials, I will ask people that have already been dignosed at the Edinburgh cancer research centre if they will donate a small sample of their blood to my research so I can test if the blood test works. I will take samples of my own blood to use as a negative control because I do not have cancer and it is important to check that people that do not have cancer give a negative result.
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Comments
09datetia commented on :
That makes sense not to test on animals because their bodies may react differant.
chl0e commented on :
hello Tia, what was the question you asked?? 🙂
chl0e commented on :
hi tia! Thank you for replying sarah 🙂
09datetia commented on :
he he! You asked a good question Chl0e!!