Why Can We Regrow A Liver (But Not A Limb)?

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9 жыл бұрын

Unlike lizards, humans can’t regrow limbs. But we can kinda-sorta regenerate our livers. Ceri, an undergrad in Biology and Comparative Media Studies at MIT, explains how and why.
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Hosted by: Ceri Riley
Written by: Elizabeth Choe & Ceri Riley
Additional Scripting by: George Zaidan
Content Reviewer: Dr. Heather Fleming, Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia
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Liver cell images courtesy of MIT’s Laboratory for Microscale Regenerative Technologies (lmrt.mit.edu/)
Special thanks:
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Dr. Shannon Hughes
Dr. P. Connor Johnson
Dr. Heather Fleming & Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT’s Laboratory for Microscale Regenerative Technologies (lmrt.mit.edu/)

Пікірлер: 81

@RRP3168 5 жыл бұрын

Good to know my liver regenerates! Party on dude!!!!

@ForeverMan 8 жыл бұрын

this channel has awesome vids, thank for the content

@koekje00005 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, always wondered about this

@suphaters 4 жыл бұрын

This is sooooooo interesting. Thank you.

@radhakrishnanvadakkepat8843 5 жыл бұрын

Good topic revisiting Evaluation.

@manjunathl5000 3 жыл бұрын

Informative sister thanks...

@brandontea3815 5 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to join MIT... for science!

@anuvab_biswas 3 жыл бұрын

this was such a good video.

@patoteto2 3 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting

@RaviSingh-sl6qx 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome girl and awesome video thanks !

@xaviermagnate 3 жыл бұрын

Our liver is the key to our existence.

@student_of_God 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@deuss001 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t you need an ‘amniotic sac’, with stem cells systematic to the organ your trying to clone?

@manishKumar-cg3cl 5 жыл бұрын

how may day it take to regenerate liver cell

@DeanLol313

has no one thought of this in 5 - 2 years

@ryarod 3 жыл бұрын

This might draw a little controversy, but: Why not just artificially conceive a human zygote, extract the pluripotent stem cells, and inject them into an injured patient?