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Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Regeneration

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the growing-a-personality dept.

v1x writes "Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine have discovered that when a gene called smedwi-2 is silenced in the adult stem cells of planarians, the quarter-inch long worm is unable to carry out a biological process that has mystified scientists for centuries, regeneration."

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  1. I for one... by Astronomypete · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our regenerating overlords!

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    Better is the enemy of good enough. - Russian proverb.
  2. It regenerates?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Plane'ariums regenerate? Ye gods!

  3. Now all they need to do by JamesP · · Score: -1, Redundant

    is find the gene responsible for Quad Damage!

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    how long until /. fixes commenting on Chrome?
  4. Sigh by linforcer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I welcome our immortal regenerating overlords.