6.05.2015

Good news for rats (kind of)

Mass. General researchers grow muscular rat arms in a dish

In a step toward a future in which custom-grown limbs are transplanted in people, Boston researchers have regrown muscles on the chopped-off arms of rats. When they were re-attached to the rodents, vascular channels filled with blood. And when a low current was applied to the muscles, they twitched.

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