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YoshitoKikuchi 11/28/19 11:14:51 PM #1:	https://aeon.co/ideas/consider-the-axolotl-our-great-hope-of-regeneration In its most common form, which scientists call the white mutant, the axolotl resembles what the translucid foetus of a cross between an otter and a shortfin eel might look like. On the internet, it is celebrated for its anthropoid smile; in Mexico, where the Aztecs once hailed as it as a godly incarnation, it is an insult to say that someone looks like one. Behind its blunt and flattened head extends a distended torso resolving into a long, ichthyic tail. The axolotl can grow to nearly a foot in length; four tiny legs dangle off its body like evolutionary afterthoughts. It wears a collar of what seem to be red feathers behind each cheek, and these ciliated gill stalks float and tremble and gently splay in the water, like the plumage in a burlesque fan. They grow back if you cut them off, too. Precisely how the animal accomplishes this, or any of its feats of regrowth, is not well understood. Like the axolotl, our evolutionary forebears seem to have been regenerators, and human children can in fact still regrow the tips of their fingers above the final joint, but thats the only complex regeneration were known to do. We are, instead, a species that scars. Why our lineage lost its regenerative birthright is unclear. From our present evolutionary vantage point, however, it might be nice to get back what we lost. Amputees could recover their limbs; paralytics could walk; degeneration and decline of all sorts might be reversed. Last year, after a long effort by an international consortium, the axolotl genome 10 times the length of the human genome was finally sequenced. In early 2019, it was mapped onto chromosomes by a team at the University of Kentucky. (It is, for the moment, the longest genome ever sequenced by far.) Jessica Whited, who heads an axolotl lab at Harvard Medical School, told me that, for those who hope to someday make regeneration available to human medicine, the axolotl is a perfect instruction manual. Its language simply needs decoding. --- Dont be ridiculous. I think FIVE evil steps ahead https://imgur.com/YQpeyD3 <cite>YoshitoKikuchi posted [p:930850674] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>https://aeon.co/ideas/consider-the-axolotl-our-great-hope-of-regeneration In its most common form, which scientists call the white mutant, the axolotl resembles what the translucid foetus of a cross between an otter and a shortfin eel might look like. On the internet, it is celebrated for its anthropoid smile; in Mexico, where the Aztecs once hailed as it as a godly incarnation, it is an insult to say that someone looks like one. Behind its blunt and flattened head extends a distended torso resolving into a long, ichthyic tail. The axolotl can grow to nearly a foot in length; four tiny legs dangle off its body like evolutionary afterthoughts. It wears a collar of what seem to be red feathers behind each cheek, and these ciliated gill stalks float and tremble and gently splay in the water, like the plumage in a burlesque fan. They grow back if you cut them off, too. Precisely how the animal accomplishes this, or any of its feats of regrowth, is not well understood. Like the axolotl, our evolutionary forebears seem to have been regenerators, and human children can in fact still regrow the tips of their fingers above the final joint, but thats the only complex regeneration were known to do. We are, instead, a species that scars. Why our lineage lost its regenerative birthright is unclear. From our present evolutionary vantage point, however, it might be nice to get back what we lost. Amputees could recover their limbs; paralytics could walk; degeneration and decline of all sorts might be reversed. Last year, after a long effort by an international consortium, the axolotl genome 10 times the length of the human genome was finally sequenced. In early 2019, it was mapped onto chromosomes by a team at the University of Kentucky. (It is, for the moment, the longest genome ever sequenced by far.) Jessica Whited, who heads an axolotl lab at Harvard Medical School, told me that, for those who hope to someday make regeneration available to human medicine, the axolotl is a perfect instruction manual. Its language simply needs decoding. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrK3V 11/28/19 11:21:44 PM #2:	Oh yes the mudkip --- "Why are you putting someone on blast in your sig? Isn't that bullying another user? You should be ashamed." - Spritelimit <cite>MrK3V posted [p:930850929] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>Oh yes the mudkip </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YoshitoKikuchi 11/29/19 12:03:18 PM #3:	bump --- Dont be ridiculous. I think FIVE evil steps ahead https://imgur.com/YQpeyD3 <cite>YoshitoKikuchi posted [p:930867629] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>bump</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SuperShake666 11/29/19 12:05:25 PM #4:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP5i5-G2f3c --- "Look, if I was good at math, I wouldn't be on CE at 2:00 the morning clicking on topics about porn stars ****ing horses." - May 2017, Dash_Harber <cite>SuperShake666 posted [p:930867696] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP5i5-G2f3c </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MudKip_Master 11/29/19 12:18:50 PM #5:	Ah yiss <cite>MudKip_Master posted [p:930868139] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>Ah yiss</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Alteres 11/29/19 12:22:24 PM #6:	I herd u liek? --- ........the ghost in the machine... IGN: Fox, FC: 5344-2646-0982 <cite>Alteres posted [p:930868275] in The axolot... [t:78209255]...</cite> <quote>I herd u liek? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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