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Links for 1st July 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board —
Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs…
Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration
"Researchers, many of whom hoped their findings could someday be used to heal people, hypothesized that as cells joined blastemas, they “de-differentiated” and became pluripotent — able to become any type of tissue. Embryonic stem cells are also pluripotent, as are cells that have been genetically reprogrammed through a process called induced pluripotency.
Such cells have raised hopes of replacing lost or ...
The regeneration game
Futurismic —
... Exciting results from the world of biology, with implications for human medicine: researchers looking at the limb regeneration process in salamanders have discovered that it works in a different way to what they thought previously. [image by ...
