Camila Mota

The information is there.

But animals that don't have the ability to regenerate are not able to use that information to grow limbs as adults.

Right.

What scientists wanted to do was access that, you know, to trigger regenerative capabilities so the body would perform complex growth and development of the lost limb without outside interference.

And they call this latent embryogenic cascade.

So there you have embryos again.

And so in the future, maybe those who have lost limbs could be able to regenerate them.

I mean, that's unbelievable.

I guess it's a long, long way off.

Oh yeah, yes it is.

They said that the idea is to start researching it in mammals, but still, yeah, a long way.

And I was actually looking for videos of the research, couldn't find it, but the pictures on the paper, you can actually see the leg developing and it's quite, it was a bit sci-fi for me, I have to admit.

And gosh, having that finding, then did you feel like you're racing against the clock?

You know, it sounds like something of a movie with scientists sitting around trying to work into the

up until midnight, into the wee hours trying to work it out.

What was that like?

You mentioned that it affects the outer layers of the frog skin, right?

How does it exactly work?

How does the fungus kill frogs?

Well, I don't particularly feel like a juicy fly just yet.