Animal
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To grow leather, we begin by taking cells from an animal, through a simple biopsy.
The
animal
could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic.
This is real, genuine leather, without the
animal
sacrifice.
What could the future of
animal
products look like?
Aristotle said in the ancient world, man is a political
animal.
I say we are an urban
animal.
And in a study done in Canada, researchers planted the false memory that when you were a kid, something as awful as being attacked by a vicious
animal
happened to you, succeeding with about half of their subjects.
When I was let in, it appeared that this fifth-floor apartment was being transformed into a complete
animal
farm, where six or seven cows stood grazing in what otherwise would be the living room.
As soon as the treadmill belt starts moving, the
animal
shows coordinated movement of the leg, but without the brain.
The
animal
had virtually no control over the legs.
For example, camera traps are a common tool used by biologists to take pictures of shy animals hiding in the forests, but these are motion-activated cameras, so they snap a picture every time an
animal
crosses their path.
So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative cost of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.
What is it that we have that no other
animal
has?
And what is it that we do that no other
animal
does, and which I believe was fundamental to allow us to reach that large, largest number of neurons in the cortex?
No other
animal
cooks its food.
They are cells in dishes and
animal
testing.
What about
animal
testing?
However, more often than not,
animal
models fail to predict what will happen in humans when they're treated with a particular drug.
We can potentially use the skin on a chip that we're currently developing in the lab to test whether the ingredients in those products that you're using are actually safe to put on your skin without the need for
animal
testing.
And so it would be sort of approximately up there, coming out of the
animal
kingdom.
But it also happens to be one of the kinkiest creatures in the
animal
kingdom.
And one of them is the extraordinary social complexity of the animals around us, and today I want to tell you a few stories of
animal
complexity.
We collect data on
animal
populations, analyze complex patterns, try to explain them.
I wanted to understand complexity, the complexity of the world around us and especially in the
animal
kingdom.
It's called fission-fusion dynamics, the property for an
animal
group of regularly splitting and merging into different subgroups.
In three words, in the
animal
kingdom, simplicity leads to complexity which leads to resilience.
Amazingly, Entropica was able to pass multiple
animal
intelligence tests, play human games, and even earn money trading stocks, all without being instructed to do so.
Just as some animals can use objects in their environments as tools to reach into narrow spaces, here we see that Entropica, again on its own initiative, was able to move a large disk representing an
animal
around so as to cause a small disk, representing a tool, to reach into a confined space holding a third disk and release the third disk from its initially fixed position.
All that screening occurs in
animal
models.
And the crucial point about this is that you then have a fantastic assay to discover drugs, because what would you ask of the drugs, and you could do this through a high-throughput automated screening system, you'd ask the drugs, give me one thing: find me a drug that will bring the red line closer to the blue line, because that drug will be a high-value candidate that you could probably take direct to human trial and almost bypass that bottleneck that I've told you about in drug discovery with the
animal
models, if that makes sense.
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