{"id":9655,"date":"2025-06-10T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:42:23","slug":"these-glowing-axolotls-may-hold-the-secret-to-human-limb-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/10\/these-glowing-axolotls-may-hold-the-secret-to-human-limb-regeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"These glowing axolotls may hold the secret to human limb regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/These glowing axolotls may hold the secret to human limb regeneration\">Washington Post<\/a> The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a lost arm or leg? With a silly smile and frilly gills, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/12\/01\/axolotl-mexican-salamander-adoption-campaign\/\">axolotl<\/a>&nbsp;has wriggled its way into the hearts of millions, becoming a popular aquarium pet and pop culture icon in video games, children\u2019s books and toy stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this adorable species of salamander is also helping researchers investigate a serious medical mystery: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a severed arm or leg?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists are turning to the axolotl because it is an expert at regeneration. After losing a limb, an adult axolotl can grow it back fresh and new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/06\/10\/axolotl-limb-regeneration\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" PvoX XhdSjKXbIpMxwD\"> PvoX XhdSjKXbIpMxwD<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a lost arm or leg? With a silly smile and frilly gills, the&nbsp;axolotl&nbsp;has wriggled its way into the hearts of millions, becoming a popular aquarium pet and pop culture icon in video games, children\u2019s books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9656,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions\/9656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}