GROWING NEW LIMBS
Dr Oscar Schotte, of Amherst College, Massachusetts, told a General Electric Forum recently that he is a member of a group of men “who have always claimed that regeneration of limbs in mammals, and therefore in men, belong to the realm of scientific possibilities.” Lobsters can grow new claws when they lose them, but lobsters ar e not mammals. Nevertheless Dr Schotte is not dismayed. . Lizards regenerate their tails, but not their legs; birds regenerate their feathers, and mammals their hair, nails, hooves and claws. This proves, does it not, that the cells of an adult organism are endowed with an unsuspected wealth of properties, the discovery and full exploitation of which is still to be made? Modern experimental embryology and the study of regeneration have both shown that there is no such thing as an organism which has reached a state of rest as long as there is still life in it. Tissue culture experiments have shown that our cells are potentially immortal.—Science News.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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168GROWING NEW LIMBS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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