The genetics of regeneration: Study uncovers genes that control process of whole-body regeneration

news.harvard.edu/gazette ^ | March 14, 2019 | By Peter Reuell Harvard Staff Writer

[Red Badger]

I needed one 30 years ago!................

[dp0622]

Rofl

Oh wait, you are serious arent you? :)

It’s a free country and that’s why we love it!

[Mariner]

No obstacles that a little gene splicing can’t fix/s

[Mariner]

“FWIW, the same group of occultic studies into genetics and secreting away of giants from archeology and reportedly war zones, is also associated with Nephilim and attempts to resurrect demons.”

What is your source?

[Red Badger]

Now, all they have to do is check the Human genome for those same sequences. .....................

[NativeSon]

Just a few years ago, the talk was about "junk" DNA and now "non coding" DNA.

This sounds like the script from a ST Voyager episode, where a retrovirus (and probably a transporter accident) de-evolved members of the bridge crew.

Do you want ants to wipe out our species? Because this how you wipe out our species.

[Moonman62]

LOL. I could use one now, but I think in the future it’s going to be a life or death issue.

[null and void]

Other animals take the process even further. Planarian worms, jellyfish, and sea anemones can actually regenerate their bodies after being cut in half.

I knew a guy who was head-on side-swiped by a truck when riding his motorcycle.

It sheared off the entire left half of his body.

He's all right now...

[Red Badger]

I see what you did there..........................

[null and void]

These days intent is always suspect.

[null and void]

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry,

[Red Badger]

If this technology ever get applied to humans, the effects on the economy would be unimaginable.

Imagine if you could do every kind of vice or dangerous behavior and just regen a new body when you had worn yours out or damaged it to the point of being unuseable.................

[null and void]

Now would be good...

[ifinnegan]

Why are you spreading this nonsense?

Are you insane?

Or something else?

[wbarmy]

Just a few years ago, the talk was about "junk" DNA and now "non coding" DNA.

One of the hard truths of evolutionary studies. What was useless yesterday becomes super important today, but the theory is still good.

Vestigial organs used to be touted as proof of evolutionary change, and were a main component of biology textbooks for many years. Then all of the vestigial organs were found out to be doing some very important things and were NOT vestigial. However, nobody ever re-looked the theory once the supports were knocked out, because the theory is more important than its sum parts.

[carmen2017]

Turning Heathen Liberals into the Gods they think they are.

[null and void]

I've heard reports of odd things in Iraq, a passenger in a car with tapetum, the driver nearly too terrified to talk to the GIs at the checkpoint, a huge 'man' in a no-go zone carrying a cow, and literally walking away from a .50 cal hit, and a few other such stories.

Are they true? Beats me, but the reports are there.

And there is no shortage of reports of non-human entities in the Bible, and other cultures' holly books as well. Do you doubt the Bible? (This agnostic asks...)

There are scores of giants in Native American lore. Are they all lying? What about the giant skeletons found in the Lovelock caves in Nevada? (Two rows of teeth, is that human?)

Every culture has demons. It seems either we as a species met genuine evil big creatures, or something in our DNA makes every culture imagine it. What survival benefit would this have as a fantasy to preserve in in our shared genome?

Are you absolutely certain it's nonsense?

An earlier generation was absolutely certain that the reports of the inferior people in Africa of a giant ape was nothing more than the deluded tribal fantasies of primitive near sub-human superstitious ignorant savages.

Then 'credible' Europeans saw gorillas and brought back remains...

[EinNYC]

My undergrad advisor was involved in this exact type of research 40 years ago. He was working with red spotted newts. They can grow legs back after they would be amputated. As I loved newts, even as a little kid, some of the extra newts found their way into my own aquarium, gifts from his graduate students. I also did a senior high school science project on the newts’ shedding of their skin and what triggered it, with this professor as my advisor. Later, he became my college undergrad advisor. This current research uses technology that was not available to my advisor at that time. Many labs have been working on regeneration for years. I just wanted folks to know that this research is not a new idea, although it uses different organisms and different techniques.

[NativeSon]

I have no doubt about the importance of the theory or in this case, the study. The development of our knowledge & capabilities within biological sciences and genetics is staggering to consider.

I do have more than a casual concern that a lab with the tools will presumptively move on what is currently understood. And tools of the trade are more readily available now.

A century ago, a poorly constructed hypothesis or incomplete 'theory' was an embarrassment. Today? CRISPR

[ifinnegan]

Two things.

One, what you addressed. Is this cryptozoology, weird phenomen, etc...real?

That’s a fair question and in my opinion the reports and beliefs in these things upon examination is nonsense.

Two, what this has to do with studies of biological properties of worms.

This second one makes zero sense.

And, I think there is a three. It always ends up being anti-Christian.