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Scientists Discover Groundbreaking Clues to Tissue Regrowth and “Immortality” in the Ocean

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Scientists Discover Groundbreaking Clues to Tissue Regrowth and “Immortality” in the Ocean
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Sea cucumber tissue kept growing for more than three years after removal, surviving in seawater teeming with microbes. Like Thing, the disembodied hand in The Addams Family, a severed piece of sea cucumber tissue kept living without the body it came from, prompting scientists to describe the animal as a “real-life zombie.” Weeks after being [...]

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