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Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the go-go-gadget-hand dept.

[TheBORG] writes "There are two stories on Yahoo! News about regrowing lost body parts. One is about regrowing lost fingers & limbs and the other one is about regrowing teeth. The story about regrowing lost fingers and limbs talks about the experimental use of powdered pig bladder to regrow fingers and eventually lost limbs for soldiers and others in need from information that Pentagon-funded scientists hopefully learn from studying the salamander. The story about regrowing teeth talks about how Japanese scientists used primitive cells and injected them into a framework of collagen. Once grown to a certain point, scientists implanted the growths into mice where the teeth developed normally."

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  1. I'm an idiot! by BobPaul · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once grown to a certain point, scientists implanted the growths into mice where the teeth developed normally.
    On reading this I thought: "Why don't they just implant the teeth directly into people? Mice have tiny heads, and it would save a step!" D'OH!
    1. Re:I'm an idiot! by Barryke · · Score: 2, Funny

      i knew that

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  2. Misleading headline by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Phew! Upon first reading that headline, I got an image of disembodied bits, growing ever larger, shuffling closer inexorably. I was about ready to look for a shotgun, or at least a shovel.

    1. Re:Misleading headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It's not misleading if you have a proper handle on the English language. You were thinking of "Regrown body parts getting closer all the time"

  3. Question to a doctor I'd like to kill by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I have my foreskin back now, please?

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    1. Re:Question to a doctor I'd like to kill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That aint gonna make it any bigger.

    2. Re:Question to a doctor I'd like to kill by couchslug · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Sorry, your parents told me to keep the tip".

      Thanks, I'll be here all night.

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    3. Re:Question to a doctor I'd like to kill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Also, some news for you: chicks don't like it either, no matter what your wife/girlfriend tells you.

      Thank you for that insight into the personal tastes of three billion people you'll never meet.

  4. Hmmmmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time
    Should I be concerned that this story was submitted by someone named [TheBORG]?
  5. Pork Belly Futures? by GIL_Dude · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone? Darn - that was the first thing I thought of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_belly I guess the price will be going up...

  6. Re: Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fun fact. Everything in the future is getting closer all the time.

  7. Obligatory Monty Python Ref by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 3, Funny

    the experimental use of powdered pig bladder to regrow fingers and eventually lost limbs for soldiers and others in need from
    BEDEVERE: And that, my lord, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.

    ARTHUR: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

    BEDEVERE: OF course, my Liege ...

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    blah blah blah
  8. Further research areas by imbaczek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Further research, as pointed by scientists, should include regrowing brains in politicians. There are doubts, however, whether this is at all possible, as some researchers say indicated subjects don't have any brain to start with.

  9. John Wayne Bobbitt this is for you by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sure Mr John Wayne Bobbitt will welcome this news and appreciate it greatly. :-)

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  10. Hitchhikers Guide reference by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I grew that one for you baby."

  11. Sorry, but I can't resist... by skoaldipper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spievack talking about the regrowth of his finger said, "it's a little hard, as if calloused, and there's a slight scar on the end. The nail continues to grow at twice the speed of his other nails."

    John Bobitt, you reading this?

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  12. Ambiguous title by StrawberryFrog · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read that as "Regrowing, Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time" which is frankly nightmarish. I need more sleep. It should have been "Regrowing Lost Body Parts is Getting Closer All the Time"

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  13. I heard.... by Dues · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard if you cut off an extremity it will grow back even bigger.... ...Don't believe it.

  14. Could it be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Replacement limbs finally within arms reach?

  15. New wave of spam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Increase the size AND NUMBER of your body parts..."

  16. Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer... by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh yeah, we'll be able to regrow a lost limb soon, but it'll probably cost an arm and a leg.

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  17. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    can we use this kind of treatment to , um, enhance some of our body parts?

  18. Yea! I cant wait to use my woodchipper again by skeptictank · · Score: 2, Funny

    and my threshing machine also.