Biotech Values

[biomaven0]

“If people were insects, there would be more approved drugs on the market.”

Some suggestions:

- Insects have a shorter life span, so it would be much easier to do survival trials. Long-term toxicity would also be less of a problem.

- There would be a lot of good models because there are so many different types of insects and I'm guessing the difference between different insect species is less than the difference between humans and any non-primate model

- The FDA approval standards for animal drugs is different (and lower) than it is for humans.

Peter