这个紧急行动任务包括人工圈养蝾螈,这正是一些意想不到的专家派上用场的地方:无暇健康圣女会为这个物种提供了真正的避难所。
But while conservationists and their devout collaborators work together to save a species that is disappearing from the wild, axolotls are breed in their thousands in laboratories around the world, like this one, in Nottingham.
在自然资源保护主义者和他们虔诚的合作者们共同努力拯救一个正从野外消失的物种的同时,蝾螈在世界各地成千上万的实验室里被培育繁殖,就像这个在诺丁汉的实验室一样。
Andrew Johnson, University of Nottingham
Most people who use axolotls study them because of their ability to regenerate. And it's remarkable. Let's say a limb gets bit off here above the elbow: what will happen is the limb will just regenerate a perfect mirror image of the limb on the other side. And so, many people hope that we can identify some latent ability to regenerate in human tissues…
安德鲁·约翰逊 诺丁汉大学
“多数学者选择用蝾螈做科研是因为它们有强大的可再生能力。这个能力非常了不起。假设蝾螈的一个上肢在肘部以上的地方被咬掉了,接下来会发生的是,受伤的肢体会重新生成与另一侧肢体一模一样的新肢体。所以,很多人希望我们能找出人体组织中潜在的再生能力……”
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