Drug Discovery: Today and Tomorrow
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesJan 01, 2020 · Traditional drug discovery has long relied on animal experiments to evaluate inter alia potency, selectivity, and toxicity. Ethical issues aside, poorly validated animal experiments often prove to be at best distracting and at worst misleading, providing data that is an unpredictably- inaccurate simulacrum of human disease [ 3 ].