
Dr. Michael Levin: Biological Plasticity, Bioelectricity, and Limb Regeneration
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The Most Incredible Thing About This Is That When You Make Cells Bigger Than You Think
The ability of this process to adjust, not just to injury, but actually to a really bizarre perturbation of your internal parts is amazing. We don't have any technology where now my parts are, you know, all the parts are three times the size, and everything still works exactly the same way. And we can talk about many of these different things. Thest planaria are flatworms that highly, we should talk about them many times. They're highly regenerative. They dot, they don't seem to age, and so on. These planeria bear 400 million genums into future generations - which means that every mutation that makes it proliferated in one generation doesn't kill
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