Regrowing body parts: the future

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.

interesting

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. Here's an article about your mention: http://health.howstuffworks.com/extracellular-matrix.htm Interesting stuff. Atleast some of the money is being funded for a just cause.

Here's an article about your mention: http://health.howstuffworks.com/extracellular-matrix.htm Interesting stuff. Atleast some of the money is being funded for a just cause. Ah good link, thx!

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 untill the earlobe is grown that the material degenrates leaving you with an ear. They also took out an entire section of a rats spine and they regrew the entire sention with stem cells. The nerve connections joint to diffrent nerves so the rat had to relearn how to walk but it took the rat 6 weeks ... [More]