Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?…
- The gold standard for limb regeneration is the salamander, which can grow perfect replacements for lost body parts throughout its lifetime. Understanding how can provide a road map for human limb regeneration.
- The early responses of tissues at an amputation site are not that different in salamanders and in humans, but eventually human tissues form a scar, whereas the salamander’s reactivate an embryonic development program to build a new limb.
- Learning to control the human wound environment to trigger salamanderlike healing could make it possible to regenerate large body parts.
Read More At: Scientific American
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