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“The show is designed to disseminate knowledge, in a way that the audience might get to know how these studies can contribute to science”
Instituto Butantan, an agency of the State Health Department and one of the main producer of immunobiologicals products in Brazil, shows to the public eight investigations with living beings the may turn into public health products. It is the traveling exhibition “CeTICS on the road” that will open in June 20th at Butantan.
Rattlesnake, brown spider, silkworm moth, pit viper, Trypanosoma cruzi, copper Joe toadfish and zebrafish are objects of research that the visitors will see. The investigations may provide new products for public health programs such as anti-inflammatory.
Traveling exhibition designed to propagate the many researches promoted by CeTICS, aiming to bring the scientific research and the public closer to one another.
“The show is designed to disseminate knowledge, in a way that the audience might get to know how these studies can contribute to science”, explains the Instituto Butantan researcher Mônica Lopes-Ferreira, coordinator for the dissemination of CeTICS.
In the exhibition, viewers have access to informative panels and, at the end of the route, they find the lab setting, featuring photos and info about the researchers.
The exhibition “CeTICS on the road” brings to the public eight researches with live animals that may result in new applications in the area of public health.
The exhibition will travel the country and was, for that reason, designed with eight wheeled modules, to facilitate its assemblage and transfer. CeTICS is a program supported by FAPESP.
