Behind the Scenes of Zebrafish Research

Today we have the 2nd in a series of articles by Jan Botthof, a PhD Student at the Cambridge University Department of Haematology and the world renowned Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Following his first article "Zebrafish: the rising star of animal models", Jan discusses here how Zebrafish used in scientific research are housed, cared for … Continue reading Behind the Scenes of Zebrafish Research

Zebrafish: the rising star of animal models

Today we have a guest article by Jan Botthof, a PhD Student at the Cambridge University Department of Haematology and the world renowned Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Together with the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute - with which it shares the Genome Campus a few miles south of Cambridge - the Sanger Institutes is one of the … Continue reading Zebrafish: the rising star of animal models

The 21st Century Scientist

Earlier today we discussed some of the characteristics of the animal rights crank, so it’s perhaps appropriate that an award announced earlier this week has highlighted the best qualities of the scientists who are really shaping 21st century medicine. The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation has awarded its 2nd €1-million Brain Prize to Professor … Continue reading The 21st Century Scientist