Nope! I don’t work with animals, I only work with telescopes and the Universe!
Actually, one of the telescopes I work on (the Large Binocular Telescope) is built in a squirrel reserve ontop of Mount Graham International Observatory. When we observe there, we have to help look after the squirrels, and make sure they live in peace. So if anything, I help them 🙂
No, I haven’t so far. I used pigs brains and pigs skin for my experiments, but it was from pigs that had been killed at the slaughterhouse for food. The brains and the skin were going into the bin, so I asked for some.
No, I don’t use any animals in my work. I do produce compounds which are sent for biological testing, however, this usually involves bacteria on agar plates rather than larger animals such as mice or rabbits. If a compound I produced was active enough it might eventually progress to testing at this stage, however this hasn’t happened yet and may never happen!
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