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Scientists Regrow Chicken Wing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wing-and-a-prayer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Unlike salamanders and lizards, most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. But a research team in San Diego has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo — a species not known to be able to regrow limbs — suggesting the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans." From the article: "Manipulating Wnt signaling in humans is, of course, not possible at this point, Belmonte says, but hopes that these findings may eventually offer insights into current research examining the ability of stem cells to build new human body tissues and parts. For example, he said Wnt signaling may push mature cells go back in time and 'dedifferentiate' into stem-like cells, in order to be able to then differentiate once more, producing all of the different tissues needed to build a limb."

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  1. I can see it now by Monkeys!!! · · Score: 5, Funny

    New KFC Neverending bucket of chicken!

    For when just one heart bypass won't do.

    *mmmmm neverending chicken wings*

    1. Re:I can see it now by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bypass? I'm gonna grow a new heart!

  2. That's pretty damned cool... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Considering that even God apparently can't heal amputees.

  3. and somewhere in the distance... by entroemcee · · Score: 3, Funny

    john wayne bobbitt lets out a sigh of relief.........

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    "be on your toes... you b*tch ass hoes... when I mindflay foes cos' i spec'd to pure shadow."
  4. Hooters by MDMurphy · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm getting tired of big companies and "scientific papers" motivated by purely corporate gain.

    No global warming: Oil Companies
    Pirate DVDs fund terrorists: MPAA

    Now we have the Salk Institute, not 5 minutes drive from a Hooters, searching the endless source of chicken wings.

    Shameful.

  5. This is a good start by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we need to genetically modify chickens with genes from a variety of peppers, onions, garlic, herbs .. etc so that they have sweat glands that produce barbecue sauce.

  6. New spam subject lines by pipingguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cue the "grow bigger, extra pen1s NOW!" junk emails in about 5, 4, 2...

    1. Re:New spam subject lines by RsG · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure, but how many procedures do ya think they'd sell when the customers realize that in order to enlarge it, they have to cut it off first and then let it regrow? I wouldn't touch that sort of surgery with a ten foot pole, even if I got a ten foot pole out of it...

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      Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
  7. The Black Night says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...you see, you see, it really is just a flesh wound!"

  8. Re:I for one foresee... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear 1800-MYPEEPEE,

    I would like to complain. I purchased your product and followed the instructions exactly.
    Something is growing back, but it appears to be taking the shape of a chicken wing...

  9. yummy! by BortQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get the beer kegs ready - endless chicken wings await. Once they learn how to regrow hot sauce western civilization will be complete.

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    A Multiplayer Strategy Game for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
  10. Re:Regeneration in mice by Dunbal · · Score: 2, Funny

    They snipped off the tip of a tail, severed a spinal cord, injured the optic nerve and damaged various internal organs.

    Sounds like the script of a Tarantino movie...

          Kill Bill meets Resident Evil! Everyone knows you have to shoot those mice IN THE BRAIN so that they die...

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.