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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.
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.
Okay guys, here is the link Source.
I've read about this article long ago from MSN websites... US government is now putting their budgets to research on this promising project. Not only using Salamander's theory, also using Stem Cell theory. My question is...will this be feasible in our time to come? Since human genome project is 90% complete. In other words, once we've understood every human genes we can also regrow back lost parts and or smaller important human organs.
No need to wait for donors...

This post has been edited by Winston LYN: Jul 11 2009, 01:00 PM
Jul 11 2009, 12:49 PM, updated 17y ago
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