GOVERNMENT MOVES TO STAUNCH MASSIVE MEDICARE FRAUD

MIAMI (Reuters) - Since 2006, U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $155,000 to send home health nurses to inject twice-daily insulin shots for an elderly, diabetic Miami man.
But in fact, the man was not diabetic or homebound and the nurses never existed, according to a federal indictment. Now the owners of two Miami companies that purportedly cared for the man are charged with running a $22 million fraud scheme at the expense of Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly and disabled.
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SALAMANDER DISCOVERY COULD LEAD TO HUMAN LIMB REGENERATION

(WIRED) By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs.
Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been before. The findings could inspire research into human tissue regeneration.
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