{"id":37339,"date":"2011-07-24T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/dolphins-heal-from-seemingly-fatal-injuries-in-just-weeks-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:43:56","slug":"dolphins-heal-from-seemingly-fatal-injuries-in-just-weeks-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dolphins-heal-from-seemingly-fatal-injuries-in-just-weeks-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Heal from Seemingly Fatal Injuries in Just Weeks | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32b3_dolphin3.jpg\" alt=\"spacing is important\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Michael Zasloff, a researcher at the Georgetown University Medical Center, has discovered that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/jid\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/jid2011220a.html\">bottlenose dolphins have &ldquo;miraculous&rdquo; healing powers<\/a>: within several weeks they can heal from basketball-sized injuries, without any lasting disfigurements. Moreover, the injuries, presumably from clashes with sharks, don&rsquo;t seem to cause the animals any apparent pain and don&rsquo;t become visibly infected. Several abilities seem to be working together to promote healing; for example, Zasloff hypothesizes that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bottlenose_dolphin\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a> prevent bleeding to death by restricting blood flow to certain areas of their bodies, giving large gashes time to clot.<\/p><p>[Read more (and see pictures) at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/15150-dolphin-recovery-human-healing.html\">LiveScience<\/a>.]<\/p><p><em>Image: Flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattkieffer\/5916549118\/\">mattk1979<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oCPAt3nchYlHEyXHvyIZHbwSY98\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oCPAt3nchYlHEyXHvyIZHbwSY98\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32b3_xjl3LDQRcYA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32b3_X8xNR9fgVdQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Zasloff, a researcher at the Georgetown University Medical Center, has discovered that bottlenose dolphins have &ldquo;miraculous&rdquo; healing powers: within several weeks they can heal from basketball-sized injuries, without any lasting disfigurements. Moreover, the injuries, presumably from clashes with sharks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dolphins-heal-from-seemingly-fatal-injuries-in-just-weeks-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}