miércoles, 23 de octubre de 2019

A Scientist’s Exploration of Regeneration – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

A Scientist’s Exploration of Regeneration – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​

Voot Yin, standing with arms crossed and smiling in front of a shelves holding tanks of zebrafish in his lab.

A Scientist's Exploration of Regeneration

At the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine, Voot Yin studied molecules important for coordinating regeneration in zebrafish, salamanders, and a ray-finned fish from Africa called the bichir. He found similar genetic mechanisms in mice and humans, suggesting that regeneration ability in mice and humans may lie dormant, ready to be awakened with the right signal.
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