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Where the desert meets the sea.
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kesha - joyride (official video)
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Right Foot Forward
If your toe got chopped off, you wouldn’t want a whole foot to grow back in its place. Neither would an axolotl, whose remarkable limb regeneration powers make this a more real possibility. Regenerating limbs retain their ‘proximodistal identity’ (ie. how far away they are from the body) thanks to genes that guide cells in the growing stump. Retinoic acid is known to regulate these genes, but how its levels are managed is unclear. Researchers hoping that axolotl biology could hold clues to improving human tissue repair discovered that the rate of retinoic acid breakdown is key. Reducing this breakdown led to structural errors, like regenerating the wrong limb segments (middle row), while fully blocking it caused regeneration to fail altogether (bottom). Understanding how positional identity is established is fundamental to tissue engineering and could even let us help the body repair and regrow without putting a foot wrong.
Written by Anthony Lewis
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Northeastern University, Department of Biology, Boston, MA, USA
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Published in Nature Communications, June 2025
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Marcus Larson (Swedish, 1825–1864), "Stormy Sea" (details), 1857
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Attract and Attack
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC; a section labeled fluorescently left) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC; right) are both common skin cancers but differ in their responses to immunotherapy (drugs that promote the immune system to clear the cancer cells). This study finds that BCC's reduced likelihood of responding is due to having, compared to SCC, less of the molecule HLA-1 (revealed here with green fluorescence), which in turn leads to fewer of the immune system's T cells being attracted to the tumour to attack. Finding that the epigenetic regulator FOXC1 underlies the low levels of HLA-1, opens therapeutic avenues
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Center for Cancer Immunology and Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Department of Dermatology and Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Published in Cell Reports, May 2025
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No Exit (from reality)
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Burial Church of the Princesses and Princes of Italy's Past.
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