{"id":154195,"date":"2023-01-02T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/regeneration-of-human-limbs-and-organs-science-fact-or-science-fiction"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:25:35","slug":"regeneration-of-human-limbs-and-organs-science-fact-or-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/regeneration-of-human-limbs-and-organs-science-fact-or-science-fiction","title":{"rendered":"Regeneration of human limbs and organs \u2014 science fact or science fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/regeneration-of-human-limbs-and-organs-science-fact-or-science-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One day, humans might be able to regrow body parts, regenerate tissue damaged due to disease, and even sprout missing limbs.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s still in the realm of science fiction today, advanced tissue and limb regeneration might be our future thanks to the foundation being laid by scientists like assistant professor <a href=\"https:\/\/mdibl.org\/faculty\/james-godwin\/\">James Godwin<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/mdibl.org\/\">Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory<\/a> in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Godwin is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5677961\/pdf\/41536_2017_Article_27.pdf\">studying a Mexican salamander<\/a> called Ambystoma mexicanum, or axolotl \u2014 a name given to it by the Aztecs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 face_with_colon_three One day, humans might be able to regrow body parts, regenerate tissue damaged due to disease, and even sprout missing limbs. While it\u2019s still in the realm of science fiction today, advanced tissue and limb regeneration might be our future thanks to the foundation being laid by scientists like assistant professor James [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154195","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=154195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}