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05/30/2018 / By Janine Acero

Cool science: Researchers have successfully observed how fish and amphibians regenerate tissue into their perfect original shape

Wouldn’t it be neat to regrow a lost limb without any trace of scar or trauma? Researchers have successfully observed how the skin cells of some fish and amphibians are capable of advanced tissue regeneration without scarring, retaining its perfect original form. The findings, published in the journal The Company of Biologists, hint at this mechanism’s potential […]

03/11/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Storm water runoff heavily contaminated by city pollution, compromising the immune systems of fish, damaging their ability to survive

In the winter of 2015, members of Jennifer McIntyre’s team drove all the way up to Seattle to take samples of stormwater by the Highway 520 bridge across Lake Washington. McIntyre, a researcher from Washington State University, made sure that they had samples whenever it rained during the eight-week period. McIntyre’s team made 25 trips in […]

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