http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7354458.stm

To someone who knows more about this shit than I do: Is this what I think it is?!

Screw stem cells!

Umm.... Powdered pig bladder lining is our super medicine now? 0_0

It might be true, however I'm intrigued about WHY evolution has choosen turning the tissue into scar tissue over regenerating it. There might be a good reason, maybe it's not valid anymore (like leaving the body defenseless while it is regerating or something) or might still be a problem to the treatment.


That might be an important reason...

We'll simply have to keep up research, I'm sure time will pass on the answers.

Or, we can just immediately treat a cancer patient and watch the cells multiply faster than Chuck Norris roundhouse kicking someone.

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I'm also afraid that you could grow organs where they shouldn't be. Imagine growing another head on the tip of your finger lol

I wouldn't mind an extra wang or two.


But I really gotta know. Is it really this simple?!

Apparently. Which is really creepy. Well, pigs are now in even higher demand..

It supposely just triggers the body regeneration. It stimulates stem cells to rearrange and work as they were building organs in a fetus. Except in the case that something goes wrong, only the right organ should appear at the right place, and no you couldn't grow wings since there's no information in your DNA that codes them.

It might not be that simple, that man was probably lucky that his body reacted to that dust. I don't think it'll always work...

Oi, but what if the DNA of an animal with wings (such as a bat), is spliced with a human geneo(sp?)?

Adding pig cells to an human body would be a disaster. All they keep are the regenerating signals that the pig cells created, and since pigs and humans are so alike they will also work stimulating human cells.

The only way would be manipulating genetically a cigotte DNA and adding the genes that code the wings for a flying animal. And anyway it wouldn't probably work...

Tis a miracle! Praise Zeus and the gods of limb regeneration!

Epic Phreaky.

He grew a finger in 2 years... Imagine that. You might be able go grow a head in 5 years! Imagine the lack of air and instant death

I read about this some time ago, and I believe test have been tried with larger body parts, but were not as successful. I'd need to find the source again though to be sure.

Please do. I'm gonna try to find some more information too.

I'm looking forward to cosmetic things like this. I really want 6 fingers on each hand.

FREAKS!!!!
The fact that it's on bbc scares me. However, if this is a medical breakthrough, it's a damn good one. They just have to speed the process up.

EDIT: I just realized something. He said that his finger print grew back. I thought fingerprints were just wrinkles caused when you were in the womb. Can somebody confirm that?

Um, the regeneration of fingertips is somewhat common, especially in childhood, let me know when someone regenerates a knuckle, or miraculously survives a decapitation.

To me is seemed like he lost more than a fingertip. On top of that, that guy's definately not a kid.

Common as it may be, but remember. This guy is like, 70. Old people don't tend to regenerate. They... DE-generate.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7379745.stm