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.

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