Photo: Whited Labs
Photo: Whited Labs
While millions of people are living with the consequences of limb amputation due to injury or disease, axolotl salamanders can replace entire lost limbs, which are anatomically similar to human limbs.
Jessica Whited is an Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Here at the Whited Lab she studies limb regeneration in axolotl salamanders, with the ultimate goal of discovering how to regenerate limbs in humans.
Whited has developed several molecular tools to manipulate gene expression during limb regeneration, and is exploring signaling events in wound healing that initiate the regenerative process.
Jessica speaks with Mihi Forbes.
Photo: Whited Labs
