Tiny salamander’s huge genome may harbor the secrets of regeneration

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 10:30 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. “It regenerates almost anything after almost any injury that doesn’t kill […]

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