# Regenerating Mice Created
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 1, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646 "2005-09-01T22:06:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/1 "2005-09-01T22:06:44Z")
> [@The Austrailian](#):
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> 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.
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> The experimental animals are unique among mammals in their ability to regrow their heart, toes, joints and tail.
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> And when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate, the US-based researchers say.
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> 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/common/story\_page/0,5744,16417002%5E30417,00.html](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16417002%255E30417,00.html)
This is interesting enough I had to share it. Hope it hasn’t been posted and this is the right forum.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/2 "2005-09-01T23:13:54Z")
Were this much closer to having a real life Lizard. I was half expecting to see a Dr.Conners be the lead scientist.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/3 "2005-09-01T23:25:56Z")
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing it!
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/4 "2005-09-01T23:43:25Z")
I hope they rush the work.
This is worthwhile.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/5 "2005-09-02T00:12:43Z")
…are you pondering what i’m pondering?
😉
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/6 "2005-09-02T00:20:55Z")
This is excellent.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/7 "2005-09-02T00:35:33Z")
About goddam time, too. You know how hard it is to fashion mouse crutches out of matchsticks?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/8 "2005-09-02T00:53:43Z")
Wow, First Nanotubes and now regenerating mammals. Science Fiction may be out of business in a few decades. 😉
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/9 "2005-09-02T02:13:52Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> …are you pondering what i’m pondering?
> 😉
I think so, **MacTech** , but me and Pippy Longstocking? What would the children thing?
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### Author:  [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/10 "2005-09-02T07:51:04Z")
Well, we’ve seen where [this](http://www.alaph.com/spiderman/enemies/lizard.html) kind of thinking leads…
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/11 "2005-09-02T08:57:43Z")
Gosh, I hope this is for real.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/12 "2005-09-02T11:48:17Z")
So now they finally have someone to pilot the Hyperion starships?
—or----
“Zardoz speaks to you, his Chosen Mice!”
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### Author:  [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/13 "2005-09-02T11:51:50Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/14 "2005-09-02T12:06:40Z")
Also being worked on are tiny adamantium mouse skeletons 😃
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### Author:  [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regenerating-mice-created/319646/15 "2005-09-02T22:09:10Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#):
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> 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