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Scientists perform human drug trials by injecting human cells into lab animals

Successful animal testing of drugs sometimes fails at the level of human trials. Karl Skorecki and Maty Tzukerman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology perform human drug trials by injecting human embryonic stem cells into lab animals.

At the lab, researchers formed a teratoma by injecting human stem cells into the hind legs of lab mice. They then inserted lab-grown cancer cells into the teratoma. It proliferated and spread to the different tissues in the artificial human cellular environment. It makes lab mice as shelter for testing anti-cancer drugs in human tissue.

So with this development, this research can provide better measurement of success of a drug, if uses in humans. It will save humans against different side effects.

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