Earlier you explained about the experiments you do on mice. You said basically you break their legs. Even though you

Question: Earlier you explained about the experiments you do on mice. You said basically you break their legs. Even though you then fix the fracture afterwards, surely you shouldn't try to fix something that wasn't broken in the firstplace?
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Asked by haileybailey to James on 16 Mar 2011 in Categories: Your Research.
- James Chan answered on 16 Mar 2011:
  
  hi hailey: you are right. The idea of our research is to try and help broken bones heal quicker. So unless the bone is broken, our drug is not going to do anything. So, the idea is to give this drug to patients who come in with broken bones and help them heal faster. To test this in animals, we’d first have to break their bones, otherwise there’d be no point just giving the mice the medication. Does that answer your question?

nathalie commented on 21 Mar 2011:

thats disgustinnggg eww mice cant you just find animals that already have broken bones and then test on them?

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James commented on 22 Mar 2011:

I wish we could! But humans seem to be the only animals that break their bones regularly!

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Question: Earlier you explained about the experiments you do on mice. You said basically you break their legs. Even though you then fix the fracture afterwards, surely you shouldn't try to fix something that wasn't broken in the firstplace?