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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Grow your own
Source: Wired
When a worm is chopped in two, the missing part often re-grows. Biotech researchers are developing drugs that enhance our body's ability for self-regeneration. Cambridge-based Hydra Biosciences is working a drug that stimulates heart muscle-cell re-growth, that could lead to better recoveries for heart attack sufferers. If we can re-grow our own cells that's even better than stem cell-based procedures because it eliminates many potential medical problems, like immune rejection.
Posted by mwelch at 07:19 AM
