• Question: do you use any animals ?

    Asked by hayleygover to Kerstin on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kerstin Zechner answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      Yes, we use small worms known as Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans for short. They’re no larger than a few milimetres. People don’t seem to have as big issues with researchers using these worms as opposed to larger animals like mice or frogs.

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