Dr. Michael Seiler discusses Taconic Biosciences' rasH2™ mouse model and how selecting the correct model will allow for faster study duration and accuracy:
"The road from a drug's conception in the laboratory to its arrival in the pharmacy is long and arduous. It can also take over 12 years and cost over $350 million before a drug finds a place on pharmacy shelves.
The initial laboratory testing itself is an expensive, time-consuming task. The human body is a physiologically complex machine, and any introduction of new drug compound has the potential to cause multiple organ systems to malfunction and, in extreme cases, to shut down completely. If such adverse results could be prevented in the early stages, expensive road trips to nowhere could be cut short, or suitable detours could be mapped." Read the complete article at: Genengnews.com
"The road from a drug's conception in the laboratory to its arrival in the pharmacy is long and arduous. It can also take over 12 years and cost over $350 million before a drug finds a place on pharmacy shelves. The initial laboratory testing itself is an expensive, time-consuming task. The human body is a physiologically complex machine, and any introduction of new drug compound has the potential to cause multiple organ systems to malfunction and, in extreme cases, to shut down completely. If such adverse results could be prevented in the early stages, expensive road trips to nowhere could be cut short, or suitable detours could be mapped."