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

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In the field of clinical research , this pipeline can be broken down into several stages and processes specifically designed to rigorously validate the safety and efficacy of new drugs and treatments. The two broadest categories of drug development can be separated into the preclinical and clinical research stages.

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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.