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Dr. Michael Levin: Biological Plasticity, Bioelectricity, and Limb Regeneration

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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Regenerative Medicine in Frog Amputated Legs

Last year, in collaboration with the team, this ability to give a cocktail of compounds to a frog amputated limb and be able to enhance the regrowth of the structure. The way we do it is we put drugs into a wearable by reactor. And that all goes on the wound for 24 hours. Just one day after that, you take it off. You don't touch the animal again. That gives you,. that gives you a year and a half of leg growth. So so the reason we're doing this is because we firmly believe that the road to regenerative medicine is gnawed, bottom up. It's not through bottom up micro management. We need to identify triggers. For

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