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Regenerating body parts and other medical wonders!!
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Sawthisin the news today. This seems likea fantastic leap forward. I wonder whether this will ever public use, and if so the repercussions could be massive. I can imagine what life might be like if you could just pop alog to th doctors to grow another finger or whatever.
However this has got me thinking, there must be loads of projects of this kind and I was wondering if people might like to post and discuss the ideas and their possible repercussions (realistic ones only please!).
Have fun!
However this has got me thinking, there must be loads of projects of this kind and I was wondering if people might like to post and discuss the ideas and their possible repercussions (realistic ones only please!).
Have fun!
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Is that for real?
MWO: Adamski
If it wasn't from the BBC I would have doubts myself too. That is indeed amazing and unbelievable.
Science-u ackbar.
The fact that it was the BBC was what kept me from calling it bullshit without a second thought. This is still pretty amazing.
I have never heard of that. Do you have any links?
Even so, regenerating a finger from the last knuckle upward, in an adult, is pretty damn impressive.
Seriously though, this looks awesome. In the future I won't have to care about losing limbs, meaning I can be even more careless. Huzzah!
A lot of things stop working as you age: think about if they could get the brain to heal like it does in childhood.
It's a damned good start.
They then seeded the scaffold with cells grown in the lab, and after a while it started beating. Not a regular heartbeat, but it was beating in sequence.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Yeah it was pretty crazy. Didn't they just pump soapwater through it to clear out the cells?
To me, that's what makes it amazing. When you get this bullshit limitation put on you and still manage to work around it.
Well also now the people who put on the limitation can be like see you didn't need 'em after all Praise God!
This stuff is pretty amazing.
I find the idea of "installing" a bladder to be absolutely hilarious.
I'm picturing something analogous to installing some more RAM.
You could eat your own cock. Over and over again.
I don't know which is cooler.
Yeah it sounds like he sent away for sea monkeys or x-ray glasses or something.
Or penis enlargement cream.
Wait, can this make your penis bigger????
No, but if you chop off the glans you can probably grow a fingertip on the end. Take that, sodomy laws!
That might hurt.
Well I would say that it is still pretty cool if you can just slap some powder on it and it heals like that. Certainly if you want to regenerate things like larger limbs and organs you are going to have to use something like those stemcell scaffolding things they are working on, but as far as the smaller stuff goes, this is pretty cool.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
But yeah, this is pretty cool.
Was mentioned earlier in this thread that children can indeed grow back these things, whereas in most cases an adult cannot, so you would indeed be correct.
So yeah, I hereby judge this as Still Cool.
Their next clinical trial - aiding the regrowth of normal oesophagus tissue after cancer - sounds really interesting.
Fuck that's what I asked for on my third birthday but I just got He-Man and Star Wars toys.