Scientists have been studying how certain animals can regrow injured parts of their bodies. Their goal is to create a way that they can heal human body parts. One of these animals that can regrow parts is the zebra fish. Scientists perform tests on these fish and discovered that when they destroyed light receptors in the fish’s eyes that the fish can regrow them but in which humans would suffer permanent damage.
Scientists have found that the fish needs for regeneration hspd1 and mps1. Scientists are not sure what role these genes play in the repair of body parts to read more about this click here.
In this article I found that the newt is one of earth’s most amazing creature also. What I mean is that, like some other animals, newts can re-grow parts of their body and to full strenght just as if it was normal. Also these animals can restore heart tissue and any injured structure in the eye.
This article was well thought out and written. I enjoyed finding out that many creatures can re-grow body parts. In my research I found that when a salamander is being attacked its tail falls off to distract the predetor long enough for it to make a getaway. Then the salamander can re-grow its tail.
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