KSAT EXPLAINS ON DEMAND: The Southwest National Primate Research Center, part of the Texas Biomed campus on the West Side, is home to the largest captive baboon colony in the world.
In this episode of KSAT Explains, we're giving you a glimpse of the animal research done in San Antonio and the role it played in creating the COVID-19 vaccine. Plus, we're introducing you to the science that some hope could replace the need for animal testing in the future.– Roughly 400 acres are dedicated to science on the Texas Biomedical Research Institute campus on the West Side.
Joanne Turner, vice president of research at Texas Biomed, said the animals help with determining if something is safe for humans. Then, Pfizer called. The company needed to study its COVID-19 vaccine in animals before human clinical trials could begin. Another reason animals are good test subjects? They live in a controlled environment. Researchers know their habits, such as how they sleep and what they eat. “I don’t want to even say what the critics say we’re doing because it’s so awful, and we don’t do those things,” Ross said.
, a bioengineer and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. “Basically, how to recapitulate the structures and functions of human tissues and organs outside of human bodies.”
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