Science at UM [S01-ep08]: From zebrafish regeneration to the best of the year

[Podcast] - Published on January 3, 2022 in Science-Society

This week, Farida Djouad, research director atInserm, talks to us about the amazing powers of zebrafish. In the second part of the program, we bring you a compilation of our best reports.

There are clowns, cats, moons, pilots, reds, and mandarins, but the one we're interested in is a funny zebra. Always dressed to the nines in his striped suit, his fin always perfectly groomed, he is what scientists call a model organism.

Highly prized for research due to a small set of characteristics that we will take the time to examine, the zebrafish has now revealed a new superpower: the ability to regenerate itself after the amputation of one of its limbs. Danio, as it is affectionately known, is sure to be the hero of the next DC Comics comic book.

At the end of the program, and to bid farewell to 2021, we offer you a short medley of our various reports: quarantine insect platform, patient robots, anatomy museum, and Restinclières seismograph.

At UM Science, you have the program, so let's get started!

Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Production: Anna Demeulandre

Listen to the program “A l’UM la science” on Divergence FM 93.9

Keywords: Science at UM, Research, Science