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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!
  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.

  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.

  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. 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.

  6. 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
  7. Hitchhikers Guide reference by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I grew that one for you baby."

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

    Replacement limbs finally within arms reach?

  9. 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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