{"id":195398,"date":"2024-08-29T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/can-better-biotech-finally-replace-lab-animals"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:22:48","slug":"can-better-biotech-finally-replace-lab-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/can-better-biotech-finally-replace-lab-animals","title":{"rendered":"Can Better Biotech Finally Replace Lab Animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-better-biotech-finally-replace-lab-animals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have to do this \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Replacing research animals with tools that <i>better<\/i> mimic human biology could improve medicine.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/rachel-nuwer\/\">Rachel Nuwer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it came time for Itzy Morales Pantoja to start her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine, she chose a laboratory that used stem cells\u2014not only animals\u2014for its research. Morales Pantoja had just spent two years studying multiple sclerosis in mouse models. As an undergraduate, she\u2019d been responsible for \u00adgiving the animals painful injections to induce the disease and then observing as they lost their ability to move. She did her best to treat the mice gently, but she knew they were \u00adsuffering. \u201cAs soon as I got close to them, they\u2019d start peeing\u2014a sign of stress,\u201d she says. \u201cThey knew what was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to do this \u2764\ufe0f Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could improve medicine. By Rachel Nuwer When it came time for Itzy Morales Pantoja to start her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine, she chose a laboratory that used stem cells\u2014not only animals\u2014for its research. Morales Pantoja had just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}