There are organisms that force science to reconsider its own limits, not because of the extraordinary nature of their capabilities, but because of the naturalness with which they display them. The zebrafish once again occupies that uncomfortable position by demonstrating that the regeneration of damaged organs can occur in a matter of days, with a precision that is still far beyond human reach .
A team with Argentine participation has managed to explain how this animal rebuilds structures almost completely in just one week, without scarring and with full functional recovery . The work provides a key that biology has been seeking for decades: understanding not only how regeneration begins, but also what signals cause it to…
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