{"id":135705,"date":"2022-02-16T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-after-treatment-with-a-chemical-cocktail"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:42:39","slug":"frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-after-treatment-with-a-chemical-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-after-treatment-with-a-chemical-cocktail","title":{"rendered":"Frogs regrow amputated legs after treatment with a chemical cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-after-treatment-with-a-chemical-cocktail3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adult frogs can\u2019t usually regrow a lost leg, but they can after treatment with a regenerative cocktail \u2014 and the new leg even contains functioning nerves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Adult frogs can gain the ability to regrow a lost leg if they are treated with a device containing a silk gel infused with five regenerative chemicals. The limbs the frogs grow can apparently move and sense as well as the original legs.<\/p>\n<p>Although tadpoles and young froglets can regenerate hindlimbs, adult frogs, like humans, lack the capacity to regrow their legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were [looking for] a way to kickstart regeneration in an organism that normally can\u2019t regenerate a limb,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nirosha-murugan\/?originalSubdomain=ca\">Nirosha Murugan<\/a> at Algoma University in Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult frogs can\u2019t usually regrow a lost leg, but they can after treatment with a regenerative cocktail \u2014 and the new leg even contains functioning nerves. Adult frogs can gain the ability to regrow a lost leg if they are treated with a device containing a silk gel infused with five regenerative chemicals. The limbs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135705","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}