• Question: which animals do you want to experiment with in the future?

    Asked by blueelephant to Alberto on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Alberto Lapedriza

      Alberto Lapedriza answered on 20 Jun 2013:


      I’m really enjoying working with zebrafish. I think it’s a really powerful model organism, with lots of advantages, and I’d like to continue working with it. But if I would have to change to a different organism for my experiments in the future, I’d probably choose mice. They are more similar to humans than zebrafish, so they are more useful to understand human diseases. Also it is the most popular lab animal, therefore there are lots of experimental tools and techniques for mice. And they are also really cool!

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