Limb regeneration: Do salamanders hold the key?
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 12:32
in Biology & Nature
The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by researchers in a bid to apply it to humans. For the first time, researchers have found that the 'ERK pathway' must be constantly active for salamander cells to be reprogrammed, and hence able to contribute to the regeneration of different body parts.