Sentences with phrase «mexican axolotl»

Scientists have now sequenced the genome of the Mexican axolotl, and have identified a few key genes hidden amongst its extremely complex genetic blueprint that shed some light on its remarkable regeneration capabilities.

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He arrived at the MDI Biological Laboratory last year from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute with the goal of studying the role of the immune system in limb and heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander (see sidebar).

Echeverri and her colleagues study an amphibian known as the axolotl or Mexican salamander.

In his research on the axolotl, which is a Mexican salamander, Dr. Godwin discovered that when it comes to regenerating tissue without scarring, a white blood cell called the macrophage may be a triggering factor.

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a new study of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion of regeneration.

Of the aquatic salamanders, axolotls are a Mexican mountain lake denizen with beautiful feathery external gills and beatific personalities.

That was certainly the case at the Arcade Gallery space, which had an indescribable sculpture of expanding soft foam by John Wallbank, while Rob Tufnel offered an aquarium by Aaron Angell, who surrounded his stoneware with live, pink or black axolotls, Mexican walking fish that seemed as bewildered by the fair as visitors were with them.