New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails, NYU Langone Medical Center Reveals

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Some lizards and amphibians have the ability to regrow severed tails or limbs--in fact, the blue-tailed skink abandons its tail intentionally to distract predators. But humans, despite our amazing advancements in the field of spying on each other, are typically thought to lack this superpower-like ability. But in fact, we’re more like blue-tailed skinks than you’d think!

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