Sunday, March 23, 2008

Sorry, no embryonic stem cells required.

Re-Growing Organs


And turning four inches into twel ...  What? 
Never-mind that part.. 



Did you happen to catch "  Sunday Morning?"  This part:

Three years ago, Lee Spievack sliced off the tip of his finger in the propeller of a hobby shop airplane.

What happened next, Andrews reports, propelled him into the future of medicine. Spievack's brother, Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound.

"I powdered it on until it was covered," Spievack recalled.

To his astonishment, every bit of his fingertip grew back.

"Your finger grew back," Andrews asked Spievack, "flesh, blood, vessels and nail?"

"Four weeks," he answered.

Watch the video. 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

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I tried to use some of that on my, ahem, member. I figured it would THINK that I had severed it and it would grow "extra tissue".

Well it worked! The only problem is: It also grew a nail. What a pain in the ass it is to break out the clippers all the time!! I skipped a couple weeks one time and ended up in the emrgency room with an ingrown nail. Now THAT hurt!!!

My suggestion: Quit while it's, uh, YOU'RE ahead.....

>>>

Anonymous said...

But Dr. Hardcrab, the wife must love it when she asks for a little tickle...
olds-mo-william

Anonymous said...

So amazing.
Ozaob

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Kidding aside, this is a major big deal. Regrow a cancerous throat? Heart? Every cell in your body. The kiss of death for Social Security, that's a given when peeps start living for 200 years. And if a brain can be regenerated, shooting Ted Kennedy in the head would only result in arrest for simple battery. Wow!

pdwalker said...

and you could do it multiple times! bonus!

Anonymous said...

That is amazing! What a breakthrough on so many levels!

Stepperg

Anonymous said...

You'd have to be a very good shot, Rodger, to hit Kennedy's brain. Now, his liver on the other hand...

--Jack

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