The main novelty of this discovery is that the new compound, alongside the previous one, forms what's known as a 'homologous series.'

Typically, most animal and plant species exhibit a minimum of one and a maximum of three crossovers per a pair of homologous chromosomes.

Chromosomes come in pairs called homologous chromosomes that carry the genes we inherited from each of our parents -- one from our mom, one from our dad.

Micro-fragmented adipose tissue and bone marrow aspirate treatments “are minimal manipulation and, as long as the physician is injecting ‘like into like,’ this is homologous use.

“But we do share a lot of homologous genes with these seemingly very distant animals.”