the gene named “smedwi-2″

Prior to reading this article, I didn’t know that genes have names. I thought that a gene contains regions of the DNA that my parents passed to me. As my biology teacher emphasized that “genes code for the production of proteins”. Proteins are very important. If one specific protein is missing in you body, you may have a certain disease that was what happened to me before. Anyways, the researchers in University of Utah discovered that (if I interpreted correctly) in the organisms named Planarians the elimination of “smedwi-2″ disabled the cells to regenerate. Without the “smedwi-2″, a cut in the skin cannot be healed. Cells are very stupid that they don’t know how to differentiate without this gene. Most importantly, genes similar to smedwi-2 are found in human beings!!!! More information can be found in http:www.utah.edu/unews/releases/05/nov/regeneration.html