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Title: What do you get when you cross Stuart Little with Terminator 2?
Post by: aldo_14 on April 12, 2006, 08:32:29 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4888080.stm

[q]egeneration - the ability to recreate lost or damaged cells, tissues, organs or even limbs - has a limited capacity in mammals.

While skin and hair cells constantly renew themselves, unlike a newt, if a human loses a leg, there is no second chance.

But the discovery of a strain of mouse, the Murphy Roths Large (MRL), with remarkable regenerative capabilities has opened up the possibility that those properties could be transferred to other mammals. [/q]

Title: Re: What do you get when you cross Stuart Little with Terminator 2?
Post by: Turnsky on April 12, 2006, 08:44:38 am

great, now if they get caught in a trap, they'll either regen, or do a mouse-y mitosis.

either way, should be interesting to see what they come up with

Title: Re: What do you get when you cross Stuart Little w
Post by: achtung on April 12, 2006, 11:04:52 pm

Wow, neat stuff.  The way I read it, the mouse couldn't regenerate limbs, correct?