Understanding how tuberculosis develops | Wellcome
Channel: Wellcome
Date: 2019-01-31

'There’s no way we could have made the discoveries we’ve made without the fish.’

Lalita Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, is using her Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship to tackle one of the top ten causes of death worldwide: tuberculosis.

Her team are looking at the pathology of the disease - using zebrafish to follow the fate of individual cells and bacteria.

Find out what her research involves, and why she loves using the fish which she calls ‘living laboratories’.

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For more about her research, visit: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/ramakrishnan/

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