Regeneration of Lungs

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regeneration is like regrowing, growing a limb in the first that is why a lot of people often think of regeneration as recapitulation of development. I did have a dido podcast with michael levin. And i big tan of this yid has wonderful ideas about how, like, the organism kind of knows what shape it wants to be and sort of moves its face in the right direction. It's still a question how we know the shape that will eventually become, yes, right?

Biological organisms are pretty good at healing themselves, but their abilities fall short in crucial ways. Planaria can be cut into pieces, and each piece will regrow into an entire organism; but for most advanced animals, loss of a limb becomes a permanent condition. But why should that necessarily be so, if an organism’s genome knows what it’s supposed to look like? Lea Goentoro’s lab has recently produced surprising results that indicate that it’s easier than you might think to coax animals into regenerating limbs.

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Lea Goentoro received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is currently Professor of Biology at Caltech. Her research involves how biological systems function and develop across a variety of scales, including perception, organization, and self-repair.

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