I’ve written previously about biology professor Günther Zupanc’s work with teleost fish both here and on the News@northeastern site. The word teleost can be used to describe 20,000 different kinds of fish, but all of them have retained, in adult stages of life, the ability to regrow peripheral organs like hearts, fins and even portions ...
This may not be news to the rest of the world…but it’s news to me and might be news to you. I learned this morning from Professor Günther Zupanc that a teleost fish can grow a new backbone if you cut it in half. I used to do this to earth worms in my sandbox ...