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Published online 8 October 1998 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news981008-9
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Genetics of a healer mouse
Earlier this year, Ellen Heber-Katz and her colleagues at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced that they had found a strain of mouse with remarkable healing powers. These animals healed in a way that was quite unusual for mammals - and much more like the tissue regeneration seen in amphibians and other more ‘primitive’ vertebrates.
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