Tiny salamander's huge genome may harbor the secrets of regeneration
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
The type of salamander called axolotl, with its frilly gills and widely spaced eyes, looks like an alien and has other-worldly powers of regeneration. Lose a limb, part of the heart or even a large portion of its brain? No problem: They grow back.