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June 24, 2014

Limb regeneration: Do salamanders hold the key?
London, UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2014
The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by UCL researchers in a bid to apply it to humans. For the first time, researchers have found that the 'ERK pathway' must be constantly active for salamander cells to be reprogrammed, and hence able to contribute to the regeneration of different body parts. The team identified a key difference between the activity of this pathway in salamanders and mammals, which helps us to understand why humans can't regrow limbs an ... read more

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