{
  "id": 19761589,
  "title": "The term ‘model organism’ should be reserved for biological systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/the-term-model-organism-should-be-reserved-for-biological-systems",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-13T05:00:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Transmitter",
    "slug": "the-transmitter",
    "url": "https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-models/the-term-model-organism-should-be-reserved-for-biological-systems/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "By referring to artificial neural networks as model organisms, we run the risk of distorting funding priorities and disregard the explanatory power of a shared evolutionary history across biological organisms.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}