On Biological Immortality

Jul 03, 2007 21:42

For my last group meeting presentation, I presented on a newly-discovered knockout mouse (which was actually made known to me by ubersecret -- thanks!) able to regenerate body parts, including limbs, heart, liver, and brain. That a single gene mutation was able to produce such an amazing ability in a mammal to me is extremely fascinating ( Read more... )

nature, evolution, mice, immortality, wonder, science, medicine, death, stem cells, animals

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la_vita_nuova July 4 2007, 17:25:53 UTC
very interesting...I'm looking forward to the follow-up.

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