Regenerating Mice Created

[Der Trihs]

Originally Posted by The Austrailian

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.

And when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate, the US-based researchers say.

Their discoveries raise the prospect that humans could one day be given the ability to regenerate lost or damaged organs, opening up a new era in medicine.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...E30417,00.html

This is interesting enough I had to share it. Hope it hasn't been posted and this is the right forum.

[bouv]

Were this much closer to having a real life Lizard. I was half expecting to see a Dr.Conners be the lead scientist.

[Khadaji]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing it!

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

I hope they rush the work.

This is worthwhile.

[MacTech]

...are you pondering what i'm pondering?

[ParentalAdvisory]

This is excellent.

[Eve]

About goddam time, too. You know how hard it is to fashion mouse crutches out of matchsticks?

[What Exit?]

Wow, First Nanotubes and now regenerating mammals. Science Fiction may be out of business in a few decades.

[Dragwyr]

Originally Posted by MacTech

...are you pondering what i'm pondering?

I think so, MacTech, but me and Pippy Longstocking? What would the children thing?

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Well, we've seen where this kind of thinking leads...

[Ranchoth]

Gosh, I hope this is for real.

[CalMeacham]

So now they finally have someone to pilot the Hyperion starships?





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"Zardoz speaks to you, his Chosen Mice!"

[II Gyan II]

As revealed on Slashdot, this is old news. And these "regenerating" mice weren't created. Ok, they were, but the tissue regenerating properties were discovered serendipitously.

[Pushkin]

Also being worked on are tiny adamantium mouse skeletons

[mischievous]

Originally Posted by Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

I hope they rush the work.

Um, yeah, considering that this woman has been publishing this mouse strain since at least 1997. In progressively crappier journals with laxer standards.

If I'm reading the data right (and I'll admit that I only did a quick skim), this is a naturally occuring mouse strain which form little scar tissue in response to injuries and so heals slowly but more cleanly. I'm not seeing the regenerating limb thing, although I may have missed it. They're also diabetic and have lupus-like eruptions. Also, they've shown that control over this healing effect is regulated by many genes, making it unlikely to be theraputically reproducible. I don't think this is the wonder-mouse yet.

mischievous