Learn about why cancer is stranger than we think and how scientists have “teleported” the behavior of real fish into robot fish.

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Scientists "teleported" the real-time behavior of a real fish onto a robot fish by Grant Currin

• Zebrafish Help Unlock Clues to Human Disease. (2018). Hopkinsmedicine.Org. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/advancements-in-research/fundamentals/in-depth/zebrafish-help-unlock-clues-to-human-disease
• Zebrafish Behavior: Opportunities and Challenges. (2019). Annual Reviews. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-neuro-071714-033857
• Beam me up: Researchers use “behavioral teleporting” to study social interactions. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/ntso-bmu082420.php
• Karakaya, M., Macrì, S., & Porfiri, M. (2020). Behavioral Teleporting of Individual Ethograms onto Inanimate Robots: Experiments on Social Interactions in Live Zebrafish. IScience, 23(8), 101418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101418

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• Pick up "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/32zrPqg
• Rebel Cell's website: https://www.rebelcellbook.com/
• Kat Arney's website: https://katarney.com/
• Kat Arney's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kat_Arney
• Genetics Unzipped podcast: https://geneticsunzipped.com/

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