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Discovery Could Help Humans Regrow Limbs

By Katie DrummondMar 17th 2010 – 2:28PM
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(March 17) -- Humans could one day regrow limbs, much like flatworms, sponges and newts, simply by flicking the off switch on a single gene. Researchers at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia have pinpointed p21 as the gene that prevents most species from regenerating tissue, bone, organs and body parts. When most...

Background on Ellen Heber Katz

Ellen Heber-Katz is professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. She participated in the research of the Murphy Roths Large (MRL).

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