Of Mice, Pigs, Sea Lions…and Men
Today we’ll discuss climate change, biotoxins, marine life, and how this all came together in the incredible and heart-warming story of Cronutt, the intractably epileptic sea lion. It’s a story of exploration, perseverance and love. And it’s a story of hope - brought to us and everyone we love - by decades of foundational and translational research with animals.
Cronutt’s story and hope for treatments of temporal lobe epilepsy in people
Brain Surgery for a ‘Sweet Boy’: Saving Cronutt the Sea Lion
Form of epilepsy in sea lions similar to that in humans, researchers find
Pig brain cells may have cured a sea lion's epilepsy—are humans next?
