How Scientists Teleported Fish Behavior

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4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:08.0	Today, Kat Arnie is back to talk about why cancer is stranger than you think.
0:12.0	You'll also learn about how scientists
0:14.4	have teleported fish behavior. Let's teleport some curiosity.
0:20.3	Get ready for this guys. I've got some big news for you.
0:24.0	Scientists have mastered teleportation.
0:27.0	Okay, they've teleported behavior.
0:29.0	Okay, okay, they've teleported the behavior of a fish.
0:33.4	But still, this is big news.
0:35.7	Not only is it freaky and futuristic,
0:38.0	it'll help us learn more about human behavior in the long run.
0:41.5	The lucky aquatic organisms were a couple of zebra fish.
0:44.5	They're a freshwater minnow native to South Asia in and around the Ganges River Basin.
0:50.2	Zebra fish aren't endangered or particularly charismatic, but they are important.
0:55.0	They're what's called a model organism.
0:58.0	That means all kinds of researchers all over the world use Zebrafish in their experiments.
1:03.4	They're cheap and easy to raise, they reproduce quickly,
1:06.6	and their vertebrates just like us, which makes them good for
1:09.9	biomedical research.
1:11.1	Plus, they're what everyone else uses.
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