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>and it's done on a long-term 'maintenance' basis rather than on experiment-basis. The thing is, you can't just start and stop many kinds of animal research. F
by searine 4y ago
>and it's done on a long-term 'maintenance' basis rather than on experiment-basis.
The thing is, you can't just start and stop many kinds of animal research. For certain models, there needs to be ongoing maintenance of a breeding population so that that model is available for researchers when they need it for an experiment.
Researchers spend decades making a particular knockout line, and you can't just stick it into a freezer for a rainy day. It has to be maintained or it will no longer exist.
Nobody is getting rich off grants. Then maintenance is a necessity if research gains are to be made on these difficult diseases.
- Fomite 4y agoThis. The maintenance of many experimental populations is because you can't "spin up and spin down" animals like you can an EC2 instance. Perhaps you need functional colonies. Or specific lines of animals, etc. Science isn't done via single experiments - it's done by chains of them.
- IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago>>>>Nobody is getting rich off grants. University administrators and the pharma companies that leverage the "research" to push to market marginal improvement drugs would like to have a word.