Via the LEF News, more media attention given to attempts to replicate the regenerative abilities of lower animals and a very few mammals: ''Buoyed by recent genetic breakthroughs, researchers at Northwestern University and across the country have hopes of achieving a feat long thought to be impossible: enabling people to replace damaged body parts ...

DARPA is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs. The researchers' first milestone is to generate a blastema -- a mass of cells able to develop into various organs or body parts -- ...