Researchers have hit on a winning recipe for regrowing limbs: Add a pinch of salt to a tailless tadpole; let sit for one hour. Yield: One perfectly formed tail, complete with nerves, muscles, blood vessels and other tissues.
RETAIL GROWTH Normally, tadpoles can regenerate an entire tail after an injury (top, with regrown tail).
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