And this is a diabetes issue.
First both human and dog diabetics are in debt to Banting and the dogs used in his reasearch. If it weren't for the animal model who knows when insulin would have been discovered.
I have a good friend who is a vet and is supervising a beagle colony in reasearch currently and she has in the past. She is that type of vet proecisely because she can help both animals and humans live better lives. The current colony will be homed afterwards though I am not sure that is the best thing. They have lived in a rescue colony all of their lives and changing that environment is difficult.
One of the biggest issues in medicine these days is aging. The animal model is a good choice and she has worked with those studies. Unfortunately to do a complete study they need to be necropsied when the study is finished but that is usual at age 13! In my own beagles cases, quality of life was not good after that age.
The reason I am bringing this up today is that I have run into this group as an alternative fund giving opportunity to the group I am in the board of. First at a friends funeral which appalled me since she was a diabetic. Yesterday at a club that I was considering joining. This an another reason is why I am not joining. Don't want to fight that battle.
However, it is apparent to me that their overhead is more costly than ours. Ours is less that 5%
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