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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?


Humans have long wondered how the salamander pulls off this feat. How does the regrowing part of the limb “know” how much limb is missing and needs to be replaced? Biologists are closing in on the answers to those questions. And if we can understand how the regeneration process works in nature, we hope to be able to trigger it in people.

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