{"id":24480,"date":"2016-04-08T19:48:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/limb-regeneration-activation-genes-found-in-mammals-and-regenration-of-heart-tissue-and-paws-activitated-in-mice"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:22:36","slug":"limb-regeneration-activation-genes-found-in-mammals-and-regenration-of-heart-tissue-and-paws-activitated-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/limb-regeneration-activation-genes-found-in-mammals-and-regenration-of-heart-tissue-and-paws-activitated-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Limb regeneration activation genes found in mammals and regenration of heart tissue and paws activitated in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/limb-regeneration-activation-genes-found-in-mammals-and-regenration-of-heart-tissue-and-paws-activitated-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you trace our evolutionary tree way back to its roots \u2014 long before the shedding of gills or the development of opposable thumbs \u2014 you will likely find a common ancestor with the amazing ability to regenerate lost body parts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have built a running list of the genes that enable regenerating animals to grow back a severed tail or repair damaged tissues. Surprisingly, they have found that genes important for regeneration in these creatures also have counterparts in humans. The key difference might not lie in the genes themselves but in the sequences that regulate how those genes are activated during injury.<\/p>\n<p>A Duke study appearing April 6 in the journal Nature has discovered the presence of these regulatory sequences in zebrafish, a favored model of regeneration research. Called \u201ctissue regeneration enhancer elements\u201d or TREEs, these sequences can turn on genes in injury sites and even be engineered to change the ability of animals to regenerate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/limb-regeneration-activation-genes.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+blogspot%252Fadvancednano+%2528nextbigfuture%2529\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/limb-regeneration-activatio...uture%2529<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you trace our evolutionary tree way back to its roots \u2014 long before the shedding of gills or the development of opposable thumbs \u2014 you will likely find a common ancestor with the amazing ability to regenerate lost body parts. Researchers have built a running list of the genes that enable regenerating animals to [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24480","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=24480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50840,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24480\/revisions\/50840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}