"SCIENTISTS have created "miracle mice" that can regenerate amputated
limbs or damaged vital organs, making them able to recover from
injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals.
The experimental animals are unique among mammals in their ability to
regrow their heart, toes, joints and tail.
[....]
The research leader, Ellen Heber-Katz, professor of immunology at the
Wistar Institute, a US biomedical research centre, said the ability of
the mice at her laboratory to regenerate organs appeared to be
controlled by about a dozen genes.
Professor Heber-Katz says she is still researching the genes' exact
functions, but it seems almost certain humans have comparable genes."
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