A hamster sitting on a counter - alternative methods to laboratory animals scientific research

Are there alternative methods to the use of laboratory animals in scientific research?

In 1959, British academics W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Burch, members of the Universities Federation of Animal Welfare, published The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique. In this treatise, they proposed a model for more ethical animal experimentation that aimed to minimise the suffering of laboratory animals in scientific research. The primary objective of applied animal experimentation …