How to Use animal model in a Sentence

animal model

noun
  • The researchers now plan to test the device in larger animal models.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • For the first time, the new imaging technique mapped the 4D blood flow of entire organs in animal models.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
  • To bridge this gap, our team is using animal models to teach the algorithms to analyze heart sounds to find early signs of disease.
    — Joshua Hutcheson, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers plan to test the patch in larger animal models before clinical trials.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Fruit flies are among the most important animal models for biomedical research because scientists have been able to map their genomes and brains.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To study how this surprising new view of astrocytes related to behavior, research groups turned to animal models.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • To do so, the team is moving away from traditional animal models and standard stem cell methods, which often fail to replicate human aging.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • Subsequent experiments showed that cisplatin could inhibit the growth of cancer cells both in cell cultures and in animal models.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • Some ultrafine particles even reach the brain, where they have been detected in human tissue and shown in animal models to travel along the olfactory nerve.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • By observing how these diseased tissues respond to various drugs, researchers can test new treatments in a dish rather than relying solely on animal models.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Miller and his team have already built a prototype machine that automates the administration of anesthesia and works very well in animal models.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Following on from animal models, TY1 will next be studied in a clinical trial.
    — New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2025
  • This study is an important step toward understanding reproduction in space using animal models, which could pave the way for future research on human cells.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The drug also performed well in animal models, including mice and nonhuman primates, and showed no major safety concerns in an early human trial.
    — New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In both animal models and cell cultures derived from patient tissue, lab members saw success after testing potential therapies.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Shawna Pandya pointed out that there have in fact been reproductive studies on a wide range of animal models, including rodents, jellyfish, quail, sea urchins, and fish.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The results were based on experiments in animal models, and further research is needed to determine whether the same effects occur in humans, the researchers noted.
    — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • An animal model would also have allowed proper microbiome analysis, which could have provided far more meaningful insights.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Traditional animal models often miss key aspects of tumor biology and require millions of dollars and years to complete.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Studies in animal models, as well as observational studies of people taking the drug to treat diabetes or weight gain, hinted that the drug may slow the advance of Alzheimer’s.
    — Alice Park, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Additionally, the results of the animal models can't be translated directly to humans.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Experimental vaccines have been tested in animal models, but none have completed the clinical trial pathway to approval.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Such a move would likely face pushback by academic and industry researchers who believe animal models can still yield important biological data.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Even when optogenetic control works in animal models, translating those results to the size, structure, and lifespan of the human brain remains an open and demanding problem.
    — New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers next plan to test this in a larger cohort of small animal models, then a larger animal model—and eventually, if possible, in human clinical trials.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • These chatty little birds are a popular animal model for studying communication, but most research focuses on the males’ complicated songs.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
  • Researchers have seen benefits in animal models of PD last for weeks after treatment, and early human trials are under way, using optical fibers that put the light close to the diseased cells.
    — Lynne Peeples, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In practice, moving beyond animal models raises difficult questions about gene delivery, how light reaches deep or dispersed targets, and whether such interventions can remain safe and stable over years rather than minutes or hours.
    — New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Notably, many teams are investigating organoids as an alternative to animal models in neuroscience and toxicology research.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Current research mostly depends on animal models or oversimplified cell cultures, which fail to accurately replicate the full cellular complexity of the human bone marrow and the endosteal niche.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025

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