Commentary: Slashing federal science funding threatens Floridians’ health and progress

Commentary: Slashing federal science funding threatens Floridians’ health and progress

I touched a microscope for the very first time thanks to my teacher lugging them into our classroom at Winter Park High School. Once I saw those delicate onion cells close up, I was hooked on biology. As a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, I study how the fertilized egg of a zebrafish develops into the 2-inch striped fish you can find at Petco. We share a whopping 70% of our genes with zebrafish, so when we study this little fish …