The Serendipitous Zebrafish Discovery with Keith Cheng and Máté Varga

<p>A scientist from Budapest who immigrated to the US in the 1930s. A beloved and common pet store fish. And a researcher looking at genes that suppress the growth of cancerous tumors. On this episode of The Show About Science, these three worlds serendipitously collide to lead to a discovery that would help us understand one of the most important things in human history.</p> <p>Joining Nate on the show are Keith Cheng, the Principal Investigator of the Cheng Lab at the Penn State College of Medicine, and Máté Varga, a professor at Eötvös Loránd University in the Department of Genetics.</p> <p>Learn more about Dr Cheng:<br /> http://chenglab.io</p> <p>https://www.scienceintheclassroom.org/research-papers/golden-fish-reveals-pigmentation-loss-europeans</p> <p>Read Máté Varga's article about the life and work of George Streisinger:<br /> https://thenode.biologists.com/doctor-delayed-publications-remarkable-life-george-streisinger/careers/</p> <p>To read and/or write your own amazing mini...