Doctors used to try out their surgical skills on animals before being allowed to work on patients. Now just a handful of US medical schools still have animal labs. Meredith Wadman asks if they've lost a vital tool.
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Wadman, M. Medical schools swap pigs for plastic. Nature 453, 140–141 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453140a
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