Animal experiments are a very emotional topic. However, the public debate most often revolves either around the animals which are used in those experiments or the research that benefits from them. The voice oft he scientists handling these animals daily is hwoever rarely heard. In this video from the youtube series “#askascientist“, science journalist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim interviews three young scientists whose biomedical research projects involve animal experiments, one of them is Livia Asan (B08).