For over two thousand years, since the time of Aristotle, scientists and philosophers have pondered a crucial question: why are some animals able to regenerate lost body parts, while others cannot? We look with a certain envy at amphibians like salamanders, capable of regrowing entire legs thanks to a process called "epimorphic regeneration." We mammals, however, respond to severe trauma with a much less sophisticated mechanism: fibrosis, which …
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