{"id":217343,"date":"2025-07-08T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/china-regrows-mouse-ear-using-genetic-switch-eyes-human-organ-repair"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:03:12","slug":"china-regrows-mouse-ear-using-genetic-switch-eyes-human-organ-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/china-regrows-mouse-ear-using-genetic-switch-eyes-human-organ-repair","title":{"rendered":"China regrows mouse ear using genetic switch, eyes human organ repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-regrows-mouse-ear-using-genetic-switch-eyes-human-organ-repair.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wang Wei and Deng Ziqing, the co-corresponding authors, determined that a shortage of this retinoic acid prevented mice from regenerating their ear pinna (the outer ear).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have demonstrated that a genetic switch for organ regeneration exists, after restoring damaged outer ears in mice.<\/p>\n<p>This has ignited hope that similar switches might exist for other organs, even in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The study conducted by the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, zeroes in on a crucial molecule: retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Wei and Deng Ziqing, the co-corresponding authors, determined that a shortage of this retinoic acid prevented mice from regenerating their ear pinna (the outer ear). Researchers have demonstrated that a genetic switch for organ regeneration exists, after restoring damaged outer ears in mice. This has ignited hope that similar switches might exist for other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217343","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}