{"id":194712,"date":"2017-01-16T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=194712"},"modified":"2017-01-16T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T05:40:20","slug":"3d-platform-can-replace-lab-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/194712-3d-platform-can-replace-lab-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"3D platform can replace lab animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, approximately 20 million animals are used in scientific research &#8211; with zebrafish ranking as a favourite in labs.<\/p>\n<p>Zebrafish eclipse rodents and primates as a favoured species in biomedical research because of their genetic similarity to humans.<\/p>\n<p>However, concerns about the number of animals used in experiments have led researchers to explore alternative, computer-based methodologies.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has successfully developed the first data-driven modeling framework capable of simulating zebrafish swimming in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>It is rooted in real-life data and robust enough to potentially replace animals in some types of research &#8211; particularly neurobehavioural studies.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing analogies from the field of financial engineering, the researchers have made progress in modeling the behaviour of zebrafish from a 2D model first developed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D model also features variables such as speed modulation, wall interaction, and the burst-and-coast swimming style of zebrafish.<\/p>\n<p>These improvements allow for simulation-based experiments on zebrafish behaviour that would otherwise require animal subjects.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/194636-new-technique-enables-adaptable-3d-printing.html\">New technique enables adaptable 3D printing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3D platform for simulating zebrafish behaviour may replace animals in certain research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":194714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[40664,40660,40662],"class_list":["post-194712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-3d-platform","tag-lab-animals","tag-zebrafish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194722,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194712\/revisions\/194722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}