Jupiter had Prometheus chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed on his liver, which was renewed as fast as devoured. —Greek mythology The blueprints for every part of our body are stored on our DNA. We each developed from a fertilized egg that slowly unfolded to the complex beings we now […]
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When some tissues are injured, cells may become de-differentiated, a reversal of differentiation. The de-differentiated cells form a mass of cells called a blastema, which, as healing proceeds, becomes once again differentiated into the type of cells which originally formed it. In order for regeneration of a limb or organ to take place, some of […]
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