{"id":145580,"date":"2022-09-03T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/limb-regeneration-in-humans-new-research-challenges-long-held-beliefs"},"modified":"2022-09-03T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:24:32","slug":"limb-regeneration-in-humans-new-research-challenges-long-held-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/limb-regeneration-in-humans-new-research-challenges-long-held-beliefs","title":{"rendered":"Limb Regeneration in Humans: New Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/limb-regeneration-in-humans-new-research-challenges-long-held-beliefs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken Muneoka has a history of shaking up the field of regeneration; for instance, in a 2019 groundbreaking article published in <em>Nature<\/em>, the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/texas-am-university\/>Texas A&amp;M University<\/a> College of Veterinary Medicine &amp; Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) professor proved the possibility of joint regeneration in mammals for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>His team is already questioning further long-held notions about the underlying science of the subject, this time in relation to how mammals might regenerate damaged parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Only some organs, like the liver, and certain tissues, like the epidermis, the top layer of skin, can naturally regenerate in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Muneoka has a history of shaking up the field of regeneration; for instance, in a 2019 groundbreaking article published in Nature, the Texas A&amp;M University College of Veterinary Medicine &amp; Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) professor proved the possibility of joint regeneration in mammals for the first time. His team is already questioning further long-held notions [\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-145580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145580","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=145580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}