{"id":113167,"date":"2020-09-18T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/could-a-super-fish-with-regenerative-powers-help-humans-regrow-lost-limbs"},"modified":"2020-09-18T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:23:16","slug":"could-a-super-fish-with-regenerative-powers-help-humans-regrow-lost-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/could-a-super-fish-with-regenerative-powers-help-humans-regrow-lost-limbs","title":{"rendered":"Could a super-fish with regenerative powers help humans regrow lost limbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-a-super-fish-with-regenerative-powers-help-humans-regrow-lost-limbs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human limitations are part of the reason we conjured up meta-humans with DNA that enables them to do things we could never dream of doing, such as fly, turn invisible, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/can-we-regenerate-like-doctor-who-or-at-least-a-salamander\">regenerate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/media\/west-african-lungfish\/\" target=\"_blank\">West African lungfish<\/a> sounds like a creature spawned from science fiction. It can regrow its tail and fins if hungry jaws snap a part of it off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/116\/30\/15106\" target=\"_blank\">much like a salamander<\/a>. Its incredible regeneration abilities indicate that these particular traits came from a common vertebrate ancestor \u2014 and humans are also vertebrates. Now evolutionary biologist Igor Schneider and his research team are trying to understand the mechanism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-09\/uocm-tri091520.php\" target=\"_blank\">behind this almost paranormal power<\/a>, and how it could apply to a human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human limitations are part of the reason we conjured up meta-humans with DNA that enables them to do things we could never dream of doing, such as fly, turn invisible, and regenerate. The West African lungfish sounds like a creature spawned from science fiction. It can regrow its tail and fins if hungry jaws snap [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}