1950s Japanese cat's brain helps Canadian researchers solve mercury poisoning mystery
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the 1950s, a Japanese cat known as “717” helped solve the mystery of a mass poisoning in Minamata, Japan. Almost 70 years later, a Canadian researcher and her co-authors have used brain tissue from the same cat to solve a mystery of toxicology that could eventually help save lives.