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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. First elective use? by Spazntwich · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2 chicks at the same time, man.

    1. Re:First elective use? by BobPaul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's what "penis subincision" is for. Google it and be horrified.

    2. Re:First elective use? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ermm not quite. Subincision only gets you about halfway there. What you're looking for is a complete genital bisection or to a lesser extent a head splitting. A subincision only splits the bottom half of the glans and the (much rarer) superincision slices the top. I have studied this only because I intend to get a (relatively) much more modest apadravya in the near future.

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  2. i'd like a larger weenur plz... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    macslash is teh new trolltalk