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ArticleJournal of translational medicine2026

We need less animal research, better animal research, and animal research done for the right reasons.

Benjamin Victor Ineichen

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Article in Journal of translational medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Benjamin Victor IneichenCenter for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. benjamin.ineichen@unibe.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-1362-4819

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 407940-206504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal research has contributed to modern medicine and continues to play an important role in biomedical science. At the same time, its scale and quality deserve closer scrutiny. If it is to retain scientific and societal legitimacy, we must be clear about when we use it, how we conduct it, and why we rely on it at all.

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Animal ExperimentationAnimal RightsBiomedical ResearchAnimalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID42143363
PMCPMC13352827

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