Jan 16, 2006 5:11 PM

Stem Cells Regenerate Antlers

This is a new one to me: deer antlers contain stem cells. It seems so obvious now. Reindeer antlers fall off and grow back in record time — four months. Makes sense they would need stem cells to do that. It turns out they are the only mammals that regrow a complete body parts. (See […]

This is a new one to me: deer antlers contain stem cells. It seems so obvious now. Reindeer antlers fall off and grow back in record time -- four months. Makes sense they would need stem cells to do that. It turns out they are the only mammals that regrow a complete body parts. (See our story here about mice who are gaining on them) A BBC story says scientists at the Royal Veterinary College discovered the antler stem cells, and outlined details "in an edition of the BBC TV programme Super Vets, which was screened on 12 January." But don't worry, Hwang episode notwithstanding, scientists aren't giving up on peer review already. Price and her colleagues published a paper in November last year.

Professor Joanna Price of the Royal Veterinary College said: "The regeneration of antlers remains one of the mysteries of biology but we are moving some way to understanding the mechanisms involved.
"Antlers provide us with a unique natural model that can help us understand the basic process of regeneration although we are still a long way from being able to apply this work to humans."

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