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Research reveals how jellyfish regenerate functional tentacles in days
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Cladonema, a jellyfish about the size of a pinkie nail, can regenerate an amputated tentacle in two to three days - but how? Across animals, including salamanders and insects, regenerating functional tissue is dependent on the ability to generate a blastema, a clump of undifferentiated cells
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'Jumping genes' help fungus kill salamanders: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same "jumping genes", scientists have discovered. Jumping genes, called transposons, can "copy and paste" themselves and impact the organism.
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Ancient superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth: St
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Whatcheeria, a six-foot-long salamander-like creature that lived 340 million years ago, was the T. rex of its time: the biggest, baddest predator in its habitat. A new study reveals how they grew to their "giant" size: instead of growing slow and steady throughout their lives like many moder
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Study: Climate change may affect distribution of salamander species in US,
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Jersey [US], June 8 (ANI): Researchers predicted the regional range restriction of several different species of salamanders in eastern Canada and the United States under future climatic scenarios between 2050 and 2070 in a study, at Wiley, an American multinational publishing company.
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Humans can regenerate joint cartilage similar to zebra-fish, salamanders:
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 1 (ANI): Humans may not be capable of growing back severed limbs but just like salamanders and zebra-fish, they too can heal their damaged joints.
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Study suggests humans have 'salamander' like ability to repair their joint
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 1 (ANI): Did you ever imagine how better our life would be if we had the power to repair injuries? The answer to this question lies in a study that suggests, using a process applied by salamanders and zebrafish, humans too can repair their joints.
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Humans too can repair their joints like salamanders, zebrafish: Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 17 (ANI): By using a process applied by salamanders and zebrafish, humans too can repair their joints, claims a study.
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Humans have salamander-like ability to repair cartilage in joints: Study
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 13 (ANI): Cartilage in human joints can too repair itself through a process used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish, found a study.
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Drunk online shopper ends up with live pig, peacock, giant salamander
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 13 (ANI): Drinks and online shopping is probably the next thing you should not mix. A man, possibly single, decided to shop online during the Singles' Day sale in China, only to realise it was a terrible mistake.
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