(1) For years people were baffled by the axolotl.

(2) Axolotl salamanders are now going under the knife - while anaesthetised - in experiments at the Hanover Medical School in Germany.

(3) It’s also possible that the axolotl’s mechanisms are different from other salamanders.

(4) The ghostly looking Mexican axolotl retains some of its larval features for life, including its feathery pink external gills.

(5) The axolotl is an amphibian – one of a group of animals that spend their lives both on land and in water.

(6) The Mexican axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life.

(7) In the wild, the axolotl is found only in Lake Xochimilco near Mexico City.

(8) The axolotl, a neotenic species of salamander, a salamander that does not go through metamorphosis.

(9) You can read more about Axolotl Corporation by viewing the Axolotl Company Profile.

(10) Bodies might find it easier to accept cells that have been only partially reprogrammed, like those in the axolotl’s blastema, than embryonic or fully reprogrammed cells.

(11) Helene Hegemann, daughter of famed German dramatist Carl Hegemann, recently released her debut novel Axolotl Roadkill, which is currently working its way up a number of German bestseller lists.

(12) It provides numerous links to developmental biology research resources, including dynamic development, axolotl colony, genetic and molecular data for drosophila, mouse embryo and cancer genome etc.

(13) So(), what is so different about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that it shouldn’t elicit the kind of outrage Axolotl Roadkill does?

(14) The researchers are homing in on a particular enzyme called amblox which makes the axolotl unique in the animal kingdom.

(15) The Hanover research centre also acts to save the axolotl as a species.

(16) Despite the enamel epithelia having a different embryonic source, oral teeth in the axolotl display striking developmental uniformities and are otherwise identical.

(17) The latter gave rise to land vertebrates, some of which, such as the Mexican axolotl salamanders, retained electrosense ability.

(18) But however the pluripotency–versus–partial-reprogramming debate turns out, her team's development of a genetically modified axolotl as a model organism for regenerative research is significant.