Dalmeet Singh ChawlaMost animals used in biomedical experiments are not accounted for in published papers, a first-of-its-kind study suggests.
The analysis found that only one-quarter of more than 5500 lab animals used over a 2-year period at one university in the Netherlands ended up being mentioned in a scientific paper afterward.
The researchers believe the pattern could be similar at institutions around the world, resulting in potentially millions of animals disappearing from scientific studies.“I think it’s just outrageous that we have such a low rate of results published for the number of animals used,” says Michael Schlüssel, a medical statistician at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the study. “If we only look for.