STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Opinion: The long history of euphemisms around the use of animals in lab research Animals used in research aren’t just hidden from sight. They’re objectified, or “de-animalized,” as Melanie D.G. Kaplan writes in this excerpt from her book “Lab Dog.” https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/lab-dog-book-excerpt-de-animalization-animal-research/ statnews.com