{"id":90901,"date":"2019-05-17T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-find-new-type-of-cell-that-helps-tadpoles-tails-regenerate"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:43:47","slug":"scientists-find-new-type-of-cell-that-helps-tadpoles-tails-regenerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-find-new-type-of-cell-that-helps-tadpoles-tails-regenerate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles\u2019 tails regenerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-new-type-of-cell-that-helps-tadpoles-tails-regenerate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a specialised population of skin cells that coordinate tail regeneration in frogs. These \u2018Regeneration-Organizing Cells\u2019 help to explain one of the great mysteries of nature and may offer clues about how this ability might be achieved in mammalian tissues.<\/p>\n<p>It has long been known that some animals can regrow their tails following amputation\u2014Aristotle observed this in the fourth century B.C. \u2014 but the mechanisms that support such regenerative potential remain poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p>Using \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single-cell+genomics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single-cell genomics<\/a>\u2019, scientists at the Wellcome Trust\/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge developed an ingenious strategy to uncover what happens in different <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tadpole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tadpole<\/a> cells when they regenerate their tails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-scientists-cell-tadpoles-tails-regenerate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a specialised population of skin cells that coordinate tail regeneration in frogs. These \u2018Regeneration-Organizing Cells\u2019 help to explain one of the great mysteries of nature and may offer clues about how this ability might be achieved in mammalian tissues. It has long been known that some animals [\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-90901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90901","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=90901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}