Ethical and legal considerations of digital animal models: pioneering reduction and replacement.

The development of digital animal models represents a promising avenue for advancing the ethical principles of reduction and replacement in biomedical research. This paper discusses the potential of models built upon artificial intelligence (AI)-generated synthetic datasets simulating the characteristics and behaviors of model organisms, reducing reliance on live animals in research.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Trends in Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2025-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Law, Computer Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.08.011PMID 40935725
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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