Effort to regenerate damaged spinal cords turns to new model: Mexican axolotl salamander
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 00:07
in Biology & Nature
For more than 400 years, scientists have studied the amazing regenerative power of salamanders, trying to understand how these creatures routinely repair injuries that would usually leave humans and other mammals paralyzed -- or worse. Now, researchers have begun creating genomic tools necessary to compare the extraordinary regenerative capacity of the Mexican axolotl salamander with established mouse models of human disease and injury.