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Jan 4, 2024

Chicken eggs could provide low-cost opportunities for cancer imaging research

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In a paper published in npj Imaging, King’s researchers have assessed the use of fertilized chicken eggs as an alternative model that can resolve both ethical and economic issues for preclinical cancer research.

The use of animal models in is a major contributor to the clinical development of drugs and . However, while invaluable tools, the current standard of using mouse models to recreate diseases is expensive, time-intensive, and complicated by both variable tumor take rates and the associated welfare considerations.

Fertilized contain a highly vascularized membrane, known as the chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), which can provide an ideal environment for and study, but to date, relatively few studies have used chick CAM to evaluate novel radiopharmaceuticals.

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