Whitney Laboratory Director and Professor of Biology Dr. Veronica Hinman was featured in the Action News Jax story, "UF research into sea stars could help unlock human regeneration of cells" by Jessica Salinas, Action News Jax.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Inside the University of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, the future of human medicine is slowly crawling across the glass of saltwater tanks.
Scientists here have been diving deep into the biology of the sea star commonly known as the starfish for years. To understand a feat of nature that has long eluded humanity: the ability to regrow lost limbs and repair damaged nerves.
While humans and starfish may look nothing alike, Hinman notes that the biological blueprint is surprisingly familiar.
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