does any licenses needed to make experiments?

Question

[suleyman]

i learned alone 3 years the biotechnology because i not accepted into the university but now i think i am very good the the field after 3 years of self learning, and i whant to make experiments on mices to research aging processes but i hear i need a licenses and sometimes hear i dont need licenses it will help me to get a guide from you guys.

and one more question does there any thing like this to get make exams on the biotechnology field and if i pass them get a license and maybe job in the field?

i hope i will get enought messages and guides without getting bullied.

[Dunois]

i whant to make experiments on mices

Please do not engage in cruelty to non-human animals.

Do not torture your fellow beings to satisfy your own curiosity or to pursue progress for the sake of progress.

Given that you are on a bioinformatics forum, participate here and elsewhere, learn more about bioinformatics, and help contribute to efforts that seek to alleviate suffering in non-humans (and humans) instead.

[suleyman]

it makes me happy to see there is people wonder for animals, i am vegan so i never hurt even a bug.

[Dunois]

If you are a vegan and you have never even hurt a bug, then do not start hurting your fellow non-human beings now.

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

This post does not fit the theme of this forum.

[suleyman]

Hi thanks for answer, where i can to post it ?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://biology.stackexchange.com/

https://academia.stackexchange.com/

[suleyman]

thank you Boss

Answer 1

[Joe]

As others have pointed out, for physical experimentation on animals (other than most invertebrates) you not only need a personal license (in the UK this is issued by the Home Office of the Government), you also need strict ethical approvals for the experiment itself that you want to run. There is an exam to be passed to be certified for animal experimentation, but you wouldn't do this by yourself, there would be no point.

It is a very high bar, and rarely worth the effort for an individual - you can have Contract Research Organisations do the work for you, but expect it to cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the type of study.

As this is a bioinformatics forum though and you have spoken about self guided learning, perhaps you mean computational experiments. In which case, no, you don't need any licencing or extra scrutiny for this - you can simply download datasets online and work with them. There are many considerations with doing this still but I won't go into them here. The exception to this is if you wanted to work with human/patient data, which can still carry extra ethical burdens.