Posted on 01/27/2022 6:47:03 AM PST by Scarlett156
Frogs, unlike their salamander cousins, cannot regenerate lost limbs, but a fascinating new experiment suggests it’s possible for frogs to partially regrow their missing body parts under the right conditions.
A paper published today in Science Advances describes a new treatment that made it possible for African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) to partially grow back their amputated hind limbs. The treatment consisted of five different drugs and a wearable device, called “BioDome.” Exposure to this chemical cocktail for just 24 hours facilitated a regenerative period that last for 18 months, according to the research, led by researchers from Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute.
“It’s exciting to see that the drugs we selected were helping to create an almost complete limb,” Nirosha Murugan, the first author of the paper and a researcher at Tufts, said in a statement. “The fact that it required only a brief exposure to the drugs to set in motion a months-long regeneration process suggests that frogs and perhaps other animals may have dormant regenerative capabilities that can be triggered into action.”
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Ensuring the health of rodent and crow populations.
How whacked-out must those people be, to subject themselves to those procedures?
None of this makes any sense.
Remember the old Twilight Zone episode with Donna Douglas where she had her “deformed”face “fixed” by the doctors so she wouldn’t be a freak anymore?
It was a real shocker.
I can imagine a transsexual getting changed back to a male in a surgery using this experimental technique:
Slowly the bandages are unwrapped, one by one, to reveal a………….
giant frog leg.
Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival!!!
A giant hairy frog leg.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Leaving the rest for the Possums, 'Coons, Skunks and Foxes.
I’m doubtful.
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