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Issue with Tissue Regeneration

November 18, 2025 Joshua Alcantara

Tissue regeneration isn’t out of earshot! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Rabbits regenerate ear tissue like no other. What’s their evolutionary secret? Ask Weifeng Lin and team at the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing. They found a gene called Aldehyde1A2 that was active

Suction Saves the Day

February 25, 2021 Nora Bradford

Suction tool taking a tissue sheet and placing it on a hand

Got a delicate job to do? Call an octopus! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. You wouldn’t use barbecue tongs to pick up your contact lenses! Now think of surgeons. In performing transplants, they have to transport delicate skin tissue. Sensitive, accurate tools are needed