Fabrizio Musacchio<p>Efforts to reduce animal experiments are important and should be pursued. But despite progress in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/organoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organoids</span></a>, and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/InSilico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InSilico</span></a> models, I’m not convinced we’re there yet — especially in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a>, where <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> and systemic <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/context" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>context</span></a> matter. However, I do think we should stay committed and aim for reduction by all available means. I recently came across this article, which gives a good overview of the current state of the field: </p><p>🌍 <a href="https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/why-we-still-need-animal-research-in-a-world-of-ai-and-organoids/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">genengnews.com/topics/translat</span><span class="invisible">ional-medicine/why-we-still-need-animal-research-in-a-world-of-ai-and-organoids/</span></a></p>