"Preclinical trials" is a term used in medical research to describe early testing of new drugs, therapies, or treatments in laboratories or on animals before being tested on humans. Full definition
Three years after publishing a groundbreaking paper in which she isolated adult retinal pigment epithelial stem cells, Temple is in preclinical trials with rats. (discovermagazine.com)
In the longest preclinical trial with the largest number of monkeys yet, scientists led by Jun Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan, gave their planned protocol a trial run. (alzforum.org)
Mice and rats will likely always be used in preclinical trials of cancer drugs and do offer some significant advantages, Fan said. (sciencedaily.com)