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Cape Cod lab to build regenerative biology center

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney June 18, 2008 07:17 PM

sea%20star%20100.bmp A world-renowned Cape Cod research institution will use a share of the state’s new life-sciences funding to help build a center for regenerative biology and medicine, the science behind the starfish’s ability to regrow its limbs.

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole will work with the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to study how organisms regenerate parts of their bodies and ways the mechanisms might be used to repair aging or injured tissues and organs. The center, also supported by federal grants and private philanthropy, will be built on the Woods Hole campus.

The two institutions are sharing $10 million with the Regional Technology Development Corp. of Cape Cod, whose mission is to translate scientific discoveries into biotechnology businesses.

Governor Deval Patrick signed the $1 billion life-sciences bill into law Monday.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.