'Mouse Grimace Scale' to Help Identify Pain in Humans and Animals

Researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia are using mice to construct a research study. They are using mice as if they were humans and are testing them with the same pain humans have. The researchers then come up with a new medicine to relieve the pain. They are trying to find new and better pain relief medicines for humans. Researchers have successfully developed a scale to measure responses in animals that resemble human responses to the same painful states. The latest test they have tried is putting the mice through surgical procedures and then giving the mice analgesic drugs at the right doses and seeing if they work well.

I think this is a great way to find new medicines for us humans. I think our body's get addicted to the same pain relief medicine if you use it all the time like most of us do. It would probably be better if we didn't take the same medicine all the time because then it might not do it's job every time. If researchers can find cures for pain this way then I wonder if they could find cures for more diseases. It would be really cool if they could find a cure to cancer or something big like that. These researchers should keep testing these mice and find new cures for humans.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100509144655.htm