Researchers Put Heads Together to Grow an Arm and a Leg

The UMass Lowell research group has joined groups from five other institutions and secured funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to pursue the possibilities of causing a limb to re-grow in an adult mammal. One form of newt, the Eastern or red-spotted newt‚Äîcapable of limb regeneration, will be studied — via digg