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A recent article in Wired talks about the amazing little Planarian worm - flatworm. It seems this little fellow can regenerate almost his whole self from a small piece. If you take a piece as small as 1/279 of the worm, like some science fiction beast, it will re-grow into an entirely new worm.
In relating that to a 150 Lb man, it’s as if you took about nine ounces from him and from that, completely regenerated a new man. It’s an amazing feat.
People are studying this to see if they can figure out how the flatworm does this and apply that technology to tissue and limb regeneration in people.
I seem to remember that Starfish are similar. If you chop them up and thing, you just get more Starfish.
Posted by Ted at May 3, 2005 9:32 PM