Hello I need information for a book.
Do graduate students in chemistry/biology/similar things help perform animal experiments when those experiments actually happen? Like if a university developed a new burn medicine and needed something to test it on, would they use grad students to test it on pigs or something? Pic unrelated.
>>8074011
Yes that is done in research in some (bio)medical engineering fields. But I think mice are more common test subjects than pigs. I haven't really seen how it is handled in practice as I personally worked with much more technical computery stuff but some neighbouring department did, I think.
>>8074011
In the biomedical fields, the grads don't "help". They are actually the ones doing the majority of the thinking and lab work. The Profs are merely advisors. By your second lab year as a PhD student, you probably know more about your research than your supervisors.
>>8074011
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>>8074011
Who is that semen demon?
>>8074011
As the other poster suggested, graduate students (and postdocs) typically do all of the actual hands on work. The includes all of the animal work (excluding husbandry). The PI's (professors) generally just advise and write grants.
Source: I was a PhD student in BMS
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>>8075724
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>>8075837
>Posting this gif on a blue board
Well typically they test it on graduate students first. This is why most grad students do not survive PHd
>>8077355
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