lab/laboratory rat

noun

: a rat that is used by scientists for experiments

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Royal Enfields are notoriously good at being the lab rat for all kind of customization. — Utkarsh Sood june 05, New Atlas, 5 June 2026

Ducati’s MotoE bike will serve as the lab rat for VW's solid-state battery electric offerings of the future. — New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025

For a scene in which a lab rat dies and then reanimates, Alvarez enlisted Tippett Studio, the outfit run by legendary effects master Phil Tippett, to make a model rodent move through stop-motion animation. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024

The plan, broadly speaking, is to try self-fertilization in tobacco—the crop equivalent of a lab rat—and then in rice. — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024

Jack’s father is, in an excellent set piece, slowly manipulated by Facebook’s algorithm into a sort of MAGA lab rat. — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023

Back in the early 20th century, doctors would inject samples of a woman’s urine into a lab rat to test for pregnancy, no kidding! — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2023

The history of the lab rat dates back centuries, and the sequencing of the rat genome in the early 2000s means rat research is providing more insight than ever. — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2023