{"id":97263,"date":"2019-10-09T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-have-a-salamander-like-ability-to-regenerate-damaged-body-parts-study-finds"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:42:59","slug":"humans-have-a-salamander-like-ability-to-regenerate-damaged-body-parts-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-have-a-salamander-like-ability-to-regenerate-damaged-body-parts-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Humans Have a \u2018Salamander-Like\u2019 Ability to Regenerate Damaged Body Parts, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-have-a-salamander-like-ability-to-regenerate-damaged-body-parts-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salamanders are renowned for their regenerative capabilities, such as growing back entire limbs. We can\u2019t pull off this biological trick, but new research highlights a previously unknown regenerative ability in humans\u2014one held over from our evolutionary past.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies have retained the capacity to repair injured or overworked cartilage in our joints, says new <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/10\/eaax3203\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/10\/eaax3203\">research<\/a> published today in Science Advances. Remarkably, the mechanics of this healing process are practically the same as what\u2019s used by amphibians and other animals to regenerate lost limbs, according to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salamanders are renowned for their regenerative capabilities, such as growing back entire limbs. We can\u2019t pull off this biological trick, but new research highlights a previously unknown regenerative ability in humans\u2014one held over from our evolutionary past. Our bodies have retained the capacity to repair injured or overworked cartilage in our joints, says new research [\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-97263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97263","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=97263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}