It seems everything comes with a price attached to it. Take for instance this article in Wired about two genes, that are responsible for inhibiting cancer growth, were turned off. In turning those genes off, researchers were able to regrow muscle tissue in mice. The idea came from comparing genes from newts to those of humans. Specifically, these two genes were turned off in newts, but not in humans, which gave the idea that these anti-cancer genes might be part of the equation in how newts are able to regrow body and organ parts.
Fascinating story, but, if you were to turn off those anti-cancer genes in your body, well, you would likely end up with out of control cancer, which would seem to defeat the purpose of regrowing body parts, don't you think?
Still, it would be...interesting...if we humans, could live longer and have body parts regenerate, though. If it came soon enough - in the next 5 years - I'd be thrilled.
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