{"id":36117,"date":"2017-04-15T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-could-replace-animal-testing-with-a-tiny-chip"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:48","slug":"the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-could-replace-animal-testing-with-a-tiny-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-could-replace-animal-testing-with-a-tiny-chip","title":{"rendered":"The FDA Just Struck a Deal That Could Replace Animal Testing With a Tiny Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-could-replace-animal-testing-with-a-tiny-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA future without animal testing is getting closer. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration agreed to a research-and-development collaboration with Emulate, a company that makes \u201corgans-on-chips\u201d technology.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that instead of testing new drugs or supplements on animals, researchers can use Emulate\u2019s chips.<\/p>\n<p>To start, the collaboration between the FDA and Emulate will focus on the company\u2019s Liver-Chips, which are meant to show how an animal\u2019s liver may react to a certain drug.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-could-replace-animal-testing-with-a-tiny-chip\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-fda-just-struck-a-deal-that-...-tiny-chip<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA future without animal testing is getting closer. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration agreed to a research-and-development collaboration with Emulate, a company that makes \u201corgans-on-chips\u201d technology. The hope is that instead of testing new drugs or supplements on animals, researchers can use Emulate\u2019s chips. To start, the collaboration between the FDA and Emulate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36117","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58066,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36117\/revisions\/58066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}