Source: Daily Telegraph
Last Updated: 7:01pm GMT 01/11/2007
Summary:
The Daily Telegraph reports British scientists have gained insights into how newts regenerate limbs, potentially also enabling human limb regeneration in the future:
"Scientists have taken another step towards the dream of devising a potion that can regenerate digits and lost limbs without scarring. Today, a British team reports the discovery of a molecular signal that allows newts to re-grow a body part if it fails, is severed or is damaged. The discovery of how newts can regenerate their limbs - and their hearts, eyes and jaws - gives Prof Jeremy Brockes of University College London new hope that it could one day be possible to do the same in people."
