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Caption: Salk research shows that in the axolotl, a Mexican salamander, jumping genes have to be shackled or they might move around in the genomes of cells in the tissue destined to become a new limb, and disrupt the process of regeneration.
Credit: Image: Courtesy of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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