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The Mystery of Regeneration - partially revealed.
« on: November 27, 2005, 07:37:15 am »
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Nov. 24, 2005 – Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered that when a gene called smedwi-2 is silenced in the adult stem cells of planarians, the quarter-inch long worm is unable to carry out a biological process that has mystified scientists for centuries: regeneration.


Now to find out if this gene (or a corollary) exists in mammals in general and humans in particular.  Then to find out how to control it if it exists.
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