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http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67155,00.html/wn_ascii

[I’ve had a couple of posts languishing in the “Drafts” folder for far too long. Here’s the first of two.]

Check out that link; it’s to an article about mice whose cells were injected with some newt enzyme by which the latter dedifferentiate (change back to “younger” state) cells when they lose limbs, to grow them back. It worked. Mice are 99% genetically similar to humans, and it worked. It could work for us, too, effectively meaning that we could manufacture stem cells from our own bodies instead of using external ones. There are, of course, some limitations. Very interesting.

http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67155,00.html/wn_ascii

[I’ve had a couple of posts languishing in the “Drafts” folder for far too long. Here’s the first of two.]

Check out that link; it’s to an article about mice whose cells were injected with some newt enzyme by which the latter dedifferentiate (change back to “younger” state) cells when they lose limbs, to grow them back. It worked. Mice are 99% genetically similar to humans, and it worked. It could work for us, too, effectively meaning that we could manufacture stem cells from our own bodies instead of using external ones. There are, of course, some limitations. Very interesting.