>>11801576This is an oversimplification. Bret found the mice were more resilient to cellular damage and death due to the increased telomere lengths but I don't think they were regrowing chopped off limbs or anything like that.
I think there's probably a lot more going on in axolotls than simply balancing telomerase / telomere length, even though this is probably a big component. From a Google,
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/regeneration-axolotl-can-teach-us-regrowing-human-limbs/ shows the regeneration doesn't work right if macrophages or limb nerves are removed, for example.
I think humans may have it one day, but maybe not in our lifetimes, and it'll probably require a complex combination of things. It may be so complex that we may just end up leapfrogging most of the biological bits by using nanotechnology which handles the regeneration for us.
