The Pet Tree House - Where Pets Are Family Too : Scientists were able to regrow frog legs. Will it pave the way for human regeneration? The Pet Tree House - Where Pets Are Family Too : Scientists were able to regrow frog legs. Will it pave the way for human regeneration?

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Scientists were able to regrow frog legs. Will it pave the way for human regeneration?


A team of scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University "have brought us a step closer to the goal of regenerative medicine" by using a drug cocktail to regrow a frog's amputated legs. 

Only a few animals in the world are able to regrow some limbs: salamanders, lizards and crabs. They do it through blastema cells, when a mass formation of stem cells occurs at the end of stump almost immediately after the limb is lost, so the regrowth process can begin.

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