regeneration
2 stories tagged "regeneration"
Cancer
The Healing Cells That Cheat Death Carry a Catch: Their Offspring Are Seven Times Harder to Kill
A radiation-blasted fruit fly rebuilt half its ruined tissue in two days, and the cells that pulled it off left descendants 7 times harder to kill, which may be close to how some tumors outlast the treatments meant to finish them.
Brain & AgingSame Genes, Different Fold: A Fly Wing Regrows Only When Distant DNA Touches
Disturb the way the DNA folds after an injury, and the fruit fly still builds a normal wing but loses much of its power to repair one. The instructions to heal weren't only in the genes. They were in the shape.