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Limb Regeneration in Humans: New Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs

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The outcomes point to a shift in thinking about how regeneration might operate in human medicine. In 2019, Ken Muneoka, a professor at Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), published a ground-breaking article in Nature that demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of joint regeneration in mammals. Muneoka has a history of revolutionizing the field of regeneration. His team has already begun to challenge further ingrained beliefs about the fundamental science of the matter, this time in relation to how mammals might repair bodily injury. Only a few tissues, such the epidermis, the top layer of skin, and a few organs, like the liver, can normally regenerate in humans. The ability to regenerate complex elements like bones, joints, and even entire limbs is possessed by other species, salamanders being the most notable. In order to comprehend the mechanisms underlying limb regeneration, researchers have researched these anima...