This is all well outside my area of expertise, but my impression is that Michael Levin's work with bioelectricity is on the cusp of #6 Somatic limb regeneration.SMEs please correct the record if I'm mistaken.
Unfamiliar with Levin’s work, but:There’s also this study [0] I read recently, along a different path of using known growth factors and proteins to kick off regeneration.[0] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72066-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72066-8
ECM (Extracellular Matrix) has been studied for similar properties:<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742898v1.full" rel="nofollow">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742898v1..."Extracellular matrix particle treatment induces digit regeneration in soft-tissue preserved amputation (SPA) model of adult mice"
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SMEs please correct the record if I'm mistaken.
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There’s also this study [0] I read recently, along a different path of using known growth factors and proteins to kick off regeneration.
[0] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72066-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72066-8
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<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742898v1.full" rel="nofollow">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742898v1...
"Extracellular matrix particle treatment induces digit regeneration in soft-tissue preserved amputation (SPA) model of adult mice"