Edinburgh Science Festival Talks 2013

IGMM Scientists will explain their work at the Edinburgh Science Festival: March 2013

What Zebrafish Stripes Tell Us About Skin Cancer Dr Liz Patton, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh

1 APRIL, 1pm, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND AUDITORIUM

Melanoma accounts for 80 per cent of the deaths from skin cancer and in Scotland it’s on the rise. Dr Liz Patton will explain how her team are using small, striped zebrafish to learn more about how the skin cells that form harmless moles in people can become corrupted to form cancer.

Aspirin A Day? Dr Lesley Stark, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh

2 APRIL,1pm, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND AUDITORIUM

In 500BC Hippocrates discovered that extract of willow bark could ease aches, pains and fever. In 2012, researchers have found evidence that the same compound appears to have a protective effect against some forms of cancer.