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An interdisciplinary research team at Heidelberg University was able to show how wound healing signals released upon injury are converted into specific signals of pattern formation and cell differentiation.
The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is activated after injury.
An interdisciplinary research team at Heidelberg University was able to demonstrate how wound healing signals emitted after damage are translated into particular signals of pattern creation and cell differentiation by studying Hydra.