Scientists are discovering the secrets behind whole-body DNA regeneration

[Just AnotherPerson]

I would hate to be the lab animal that this gets tested out on it. There is going to be alot of chopping of limbs. Darn.


See more at the link https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists...-regeneration/

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Scientists want to know why some fauna, like some species of the humble jellyfish, can regenerate their whole bodies following an injury. In a paper published last Friday, a team at Harvard have made some breakthroughs. With three-banded panther worms as their test subjects, Harvard's Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mansi Srivastava and her team discovered a master control gene that's activated by noncoding DNA, according to the Harvard Gazette.

The control gene is called EGR for early growth response. Once activated, it turns on genes that correlate to regeneration, according to Andrew Gehrke, a postdoctoral fellow in Srivastava's team.

"What we found is that this one master gene comes on [and activates] genes that are turning on during regeneration," Gehrke explained to the publication. "Basically, what's going on is the noncoding regions are telling the coding regions to turn on or off, so a good way to think of it is as though they are switches."

[MisterVeritis]

This is interesting. A wounded human can have EGR turned on and regenerate the broken parts.

[Trumpster]

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Unfortunately, the discovery won't lead to humans being able to regenerate their limbs Deadpool style. Although humans also have EGR, the team said, our wiring is much different to creatures like the panther worm.

[Just AnotherPerson]

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But I bet they are going to try every experiment in the book to try and make it work.

[RadioGod]

All the cheating husbands who's wives are waiting at home with scissors are letting out a big cheer at this news! LOL. Go ahead and cut it off, it will grow back in a month Maybe this is a plot by the male chauvenist's to leave women even more impotent....

[MisterVeritis]

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That may be true today. It won't be true in a decade.

[MisterVeritis]

But I bet they are going to try every experiment in the book to try and make it work.

I predict we will first understand it. Then we will try to use it.

[MisterVeritis]

All the cheating husbands who's wives are waiting at home with scissors are letting out a big cheer at this news! LOL. Go ahead and cut it off, it will grow back in a month Maybe this is a plot by the male chauvenist's to leave women even more impotent....

I suppose your response is a serious one...

[Just AnotherPerson]

I predict we will first understand it. then we will try to use it.

For sure. They will do everything they can to try and make it work. If it fails, it fails, but they wont let it fail without a fight. They will experiment with it for decades if need be.

[Just AnotherPerson]

I suppose your response is a serious one...

Well his response was a fun one. :)