Drug Cocktail Makes Frog Amputee Regrow Limb

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute used a mix of five drugs to regenerate a functional limb on a frog.

There’s a lot of research and development in the field of prosthetics, but wouldn’t it be great if we could just regrow missing appendages like a starfish? According to a recent CNN article, it may be possible sooner than we think. A team of researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute were able to trigger the regrowth of an amputated leg on an African clawed frog.

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