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Regrowing body parts: the future

Posted on Friday, 27 November, 2009 | 5 comments

Science has come a long way in the quest to help patients who are in need of replacement body parts but now research has placed us on the verge of being able to regrow everything from arms and legs to heart or spine tissue.

Starfish, salamanders, and planarian flatworms share a seemingly magical trait: the ability to regenerate body parts they've lost. While humans may never boast quite the same ability, scientists are perfecting ways to create different types of replacement tissue using stem cells or techniques that kick-start regrowth and development.

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#1 Posted by Triade on 27 November, 2009, 6:27
Yeah, just a few more generations and health insurance will be completely different :-p They don't mention anything in the article about pig blatter being used? As with one of the first regrowing cases I've read about: regrowing a finger.

#2 Posted by Strify on 27 November, 2009, 7:18
interesting

#3 Posted by :PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: on 27 November, 2009, 8:23
Here's an article about your mention: Interesting stuff. Atleast some of the money is being funded for a just cause.

#4 Posted by Triade on 27 November, 2009, 8:53
Ah good link, thx!

#5 Posted by Mbyte on 27 November, 2009, 13:38
They already grow skin. They have to get the youngest skin possible so the use circumcised baby skin. They grow football fields of skin. The have a biodegradable material with is placed underneat a skin of a rat. The material is shaped into an earlobe. Cartalige then grown around the shaped earlobe ...

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