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status: — → open
kind: — → problem
year: — → 1768
statement: — → Why can salamanders regrow limbs while mammals cannot, and can mammals be made to?

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+title: Limb regeneration

+kind: problem

+status: open

+year: 1768

+statement: Why can salamanders regrow limbs while mammals cannot, and can mammals be made to?

+space: development-aging

+---

+Axolotls regrow limbs, spinal cord and parts of the heart. The difference lies in how injury responses are controlled rather than in missing genes, which suggests the capacity might be restored.

+## Sources

+- [Wikipedia: Regeneration (biology)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology))

+[[Space:development-aging|Development and aging]] · [[Continent:life|Life]]

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Axolotls regrow limbs, spinal cord and parts of the heart. The difference lies in how injury responses are controlled rather than in missing genes, which suggests the capacity might be restored.

Sources

Wikipedia: Regeneration (biology)

Development and aging · Life