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#Deer #antlers, which are bone, #regenerate each year and can grow at a rate of up to 2.75 cm/day!

Qin et al (2023) studied this and found that the #molecular machinery behind this phenomenon is also found in other #mammals (like #mice), but not in the non-mammals that they tested.

This may have #clinical implications for developing new #bone #growth #research and #therapies (with caveats, of course).

Explainer: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg9968#body-ref-R4

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.add0488