Could a blind eye regenerate? - David Davila
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We tend to think of blindness as something you're born with, but with certain genetic diseases, it can actually develop when you’re a kid, or even when you’re an adult. But could blind eyes possibly regenerate? David Davila explains how the zebrafish’s amazing regenerative retinas are causing scientists to investigate that very question.
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Could research on these species also help humans that have cancer?
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Sarvesh Lobana
Jammu, India
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We would be harnessing progenitor cells which cannot cure cancer. To cure cancer we need something to destroy the cancerous cells which is unlikely to be achieved by progenitor cells.
Progenitor cells are kind of like stem cells but unlike the latter they cann convert to ALL kinds of cells
Tea Myftari
Fier, Albania
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maybe why not?
