Flatworms may be key to body's regeneration

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | November 28, 2005| | Copyright

Imagine a future hospital where specialized treatment prompts a patient's damaged thyroid to regenerate into a healthy organ. Or where a lost finger can grow back.

That sort of recuperative magic is impossible today, and maybe it never will happen. But if it does take place, there's a good chance that the line of discoveries leading to such medical miracles will include a find by a team of University of Utah scientists.

Their discovery, concerning the way a species of small primitive animals called flatworms can regenerate, was announced in Friday's edition of the journal Science. The team was ...

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