UM atUM [S01-ep08]: From zebrafish regeneration to the year-end highlights
This week, Farida Djouad, a research director atInserm, talks to us about the amazing abilities of the zebrafish. In the second half of the program, we’ll 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 spick and span in his striped suit, his fin always perfectly groomed, he is what scientists call a model organism.
Highly prized in research due to a number of unique characteristics that we’ll take a moment to discuss, the zebrafish has now revealed a new superpower: the ability to regenerate itself after the amputation of one of its limbs. Danio—that’s its nickname—is sure to be the hero of the next DC Comics movie.
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As we wrap up the show and bid farewell to 2021, we’ve put together a short medley of our various reports: the quarantine insect platform, patient robots, the anatomy museum, and the Restinclières seismograph.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Director: Anna Demeulandre
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