Saturday, October 01, 2005

The Uncanny X-Mice

A mouse strain has been discovered that can regenerate body parts.

Exactly how well these mice can regenerate vital organs is not entirely clear:

"Researchers systematically amputated digits and damaged various organs of the mice, including the heart, liver and brain, most of which grew back."

Which is a bit of an ambiguous wording.

But it is still interesting, and definitely a healin ability beyond what we have been able to see before in mammals outside of the womb (or even in the womb in the later stages of pregnancy).

That is all.

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