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Distinguishing the Roles of Preclinical vs. Clinical CROs in Clinical Research

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Clinical CROs in Clinical Research Randomized clinical trials are the gold-standard of evidence-based medicine, representing the culmination of the long, arduous drug development pipeline. The two broadest categories of drug development can be separated into the preclinical and clinical research stages. over this period.

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Origins of the Lab Mouse

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Without mouse models, we may never have developed polio and meningitis vaccines, organ transplants, GLP-1 drugs, gene therapies , or any other number of transformative treatments. Today, somewhere on the order of 30 million rodents are used yearly in biomedical research in the U.S. C57Bl/6 mice in laboratory cages.