Phasing out animal research prematurely will maintain gender inequities in medicine
Ivana Jaric
Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02309-w Decades of male bias in animal research have left female biology critically understudied. Prematurely phasing out animal research would lock this inequity into future biomedicine, disproportionately harming women.