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This article describes research in progress. Scientists have been able to regenerate damaged limbs, tail, heart and joints in mice. Also when they injected cells from the experimental mice to another mice, the ability to regenerate was transferred to the next mice. If this experiment is repeated in humans and it works, it will make Coronary Care Units and Intensive Care Units the TB Hospitals of yester years.

Scientists in the United Kingdom who were working in laboratory conditions with mice have successful created a “Miracle mouse”. This mouse is considered a miracle because, until now mammals were never able to regenerate amputated limbs or damaged tissue (s). Many readers man not be surprised because there is this assumption that after surgery we get better because new tissues grow. The reality is that there is no growth of new tissue except new fibers which just hold the damaged tissues together. These fibers do not have nerve endings blood vessels or sensation in them. This mouse’s ability to recover is truly miraculous. The injuries inflicted on the experimental mouse would ordinarily have killed it or disabled it permanently.

This is a major achievement for science. It is the first time that an experimental mammal has been able to regrow its myocardium (heart muscle) toes, joints and tail. Readers of natural sciences will know that lizards can regrow their tails.

Picture A:The Super Mouse – Genetic Material for your aging HEART

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The scientists then transplanted living cells from the miracle mouse into other mice. Their finding was even more startling than the first. This process transferred the “ability to regenerate” to the new mice. However, to date scientists have not been able to identify the enzyme, chemical, gene which is responsible for this ability to regenerate. Would you like to have a new heart just by receiving the injection of a few cells. This discovery will make major heart surgery redundant. Our Intensive Care Units may become the TB Hospitals of yester years. This will definitely open up a new era of medicine and longevity.

All the finer details of this experiment will be presented at a scientific conference to discuss aging and its management, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Professor Ellen Herber-Katz of the Wistar Institute located in the United States stated that the ability of mice to regenerate tissues in his laboratory were conditional upon 12 to 14 genes. Prof. Herber-Katz works with a US biomedical research centre.

In this article, I have discussed the latest details which have just become available. I am researching this topic further and will publish a follow up report within the next 24 hours. This research is the most interesting discovery since the discovery of genetic material by Francis Crick and James Watson, 1953. Although it is known the work of many other scientists paved the way for the exploration of DNA.as far back as in 1868 when Friedrich Miescher, isolated something no one had ever seen before from the nuclei of cells. He called the compound “nuclein.” This is today called nucleic acid, the “NA” in DNA (deoxyribo-nucleic-acid) and RNA (ribo-nucleic-acid).

In 1866, Gregor Mendel, a Chez monk did a series of experiments with peas which showed that the transfer of certain traits was related to transfering the nucleic material. These packages are what we now call genes or genetic materil. We have come a long way since the days of Grepor Medel.