In that case, how is it possible to regenerate now that we are adults?

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That is the question to which biomedical research has devoted itself for many years. Fortunately, we now have some answers. The first is the discovery that the unique DNA structure present in every cell represents (among other things) a blueprint or map of our whole body, not just information relevant to that cell.



This blueprint organizes the body’s growth in the womb by telling cells what comes next in the growth process. This body map is created in the very first cell we have and remains constant throughout our lives, unaltered even if our body becomes wounded, damaged, or amputated in some way. As such, when we are wounded, our body still has a record of what should have been there, a record that regenerative medicine uses to have the body remake itself.





The second key is learning how to stop scarring from happening. When we are wounded, our body automatically instructs the cells at the wound site to form scar tissue. As stated above, this function was of importance to evolution but marked the end of natural regeneration in our body.



Regenerative medical techniques have shown that it is possible to turn off that instruction from the brain and instead send a new instruction to wound site cells to regrow what was taken away, using the blueprint present in our DNA, just as if the body were still in the womb.

