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26 Jan 2022Landmark

Morphogenesis & Regeneration Wound Healing & Tissue Repair

Adult frogs regrow functional legs after a 24-hour drug treatment

A wearable silicone bioreactor delivering a five-drug cocktail to amputation sites for one day triggered 18 months of leg regrowth in adult African clawed frogs, which normally cannot regenerate limbs.

Science AdvancesMajor

13 Jan 2020Landmark

Synthetic Morphology & Biobots Morphogenesis & Regeneration

Computer-designed "xenobots" built from frog cells move, heal and cooperate

An evolutionary algorithm designed body shapes that were then assembled by hand from frog skin and heart-muscle cells, producing millimetre-scale living machines with behaviours no frog has.

PNASMajor