Working one arm or leg could help strengthen the corresponding injured or immobilised limb and also stop it wasting away from lack of use.
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Little skates that ‘walk’ across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.
A genetic instruction controlling limb development was present in fish almost half a billion years ago, researchers at a…
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Ken Nosaka is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Edith Cowan University
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Reader in Vertebrate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
