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Re-growing a severed finger now possible

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rosborne979
 
Reply Tue 27 May, 2008 01:43 pm
This was amazing.

Video of the growth

The resulting fingernail grows faster than the others because the finger-tip is younger than the rest of the body.

"Pixie Dust" produced from cells from a Pig's bladder can be used to stimulate dormant stem cells into regenerating a finger (skin, tendons, nerves and fingernail in all).

Detail on the process
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Tue 27 May, 2008 01:45 pm
Un-fcuking real.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Tue 27 May, 2008 01:52 pm
this -> Shocked

is appropriate..
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Wolf ODonnell
 
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Reply Tue 27 May, 2008 02:05 pm
And yet on the same page, I found a link to this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7379864.stm

Which led me to this article:

http://www.badscience.net/?p=669#more-669

and subsequently this:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3866743.ece

Sorry, but you've got your hopes up for nothing.
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Tue 27 May, 2008 03:19 pm
Wolf_ODonnell wrote:
Sorry, but you've got your hopes up for nothing.

Oh damn. I knew it sounded too good to be true. I guess it was.

CNN just ran a story on it today.
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