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keen31

ive read before that children under a certain age (like 6 or something?) naturally have the ability to do this so long as it isnt too large a portion of the fingertip. pretty rad that it happened to this older guy though. id go on record as saying i believe the general idea behind it, its a shame we dont understand it better yet though.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252704,00.html
w/vids: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/22/sunday/main3960219.shtml
ive read before that children under a certain age (like 6 or something?) naturally have the ability to do this so long as it isnt too large a portion of the fingertip. pretty rad that it happened to this older guy though. id go on record as saying i believe the general idea behind it, its a shame we dont understand it better yet though. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252704,00.html w/vids: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/22/sunday/main3960219.shtml

Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

Dash

the future is now..
so.. why did they get that guy to test it? seems kinda.. weird.. wouldnt they just patch him up instead?
and wouldnt it be better to keep it under close study until they figure out more about it?
like.. tests on mice?
ah well.. i shouldnt be so .. naggy...
that stuffs cool though.. really interesting
the future is now.. so.. why did they get that guy to test it? seems kinda.. weird.. wouldnt they just patch him up instead? and wouldnt it be better to keep it under close study until they figure out more about it? like.. tests on mice? ah well.. i shouldnt be so .. naggy... that stuffs cool though.. really interesting

Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

vondur

There is a man I know who said that he grew back a toe when he was very young.
The theory behind it is that the only thing stopping us from regrowing lost limbs is the fact that we are aware of them being missing, and our mind does not believe it possible for them to regrow. When you are very young you are not yet aware that you have fingers, toes, etc. so you are able to regrow them if they are lost. The same thing is true with lizards that can regrow a tail. However, the counterargument is that… umm… I don't know how to say this… the thing done in America to baby boys, you know what I'm talking about… well, that doesn't regrow.
The story above seems to be different, however. It is an adult and it didn't just regrow on it's own, he used a substance to initiate the regrowth.
This is a very interesting story, thanks for sharing it!
There is a man I know who said that he grew back a toe when he was very young. The theory behind it is that the only thing stopping us from regrowing lost limbs is the fact that we are aware of them being missing, and our mind does not believe it possible for them to regrow. When you are very young you are not yet aware that you have fingers, toes, etc. so you are able to regrow them if they are lost. The same thing is true with lizards that can regrow a tail. However, the counterargument is that… umm… I don't know how to say this… the thing done in America to baby boys, you know what I'm talking about… well, that doesn't regrow. The story above seems to be different, however. It is an adult and it didn't just regrow on it's own, he used a substance to initiate the regrowth. This is a very interesting story, thanks for sharing it!

Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

keen31

@dash
the reason this guy got it is because a close relative of his is one of the researchers working on it and sent him the stuff. they talk about it in the video and they also mention animal tests and that the gov't is rolling out larger scale trials on wounded vets.
@dash the reason this guy got it is because a close relative of his is one of the researchers working on it and sent him the stuff. they talk about it in the video and they also mention animal tests and that the gov't is rolling out larger scale trials on wounded vets.

Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

Gumby

I have a question though..Say for example a guy loses his arm. But he's a body builder, and his whole body is really ripped. But he grows back his arm, will it grow back to how he had it before? Or will he have to re train it so it will be muscly like the rest of his body?
I have a question though..Say for example a guy loses his arm. But he's a body builder, and his whole body is really ripped. But he grows back his arm, will it grow back to how he had it before? Or will he have to re train it so it will be muscly like the rest of his body?

Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

NewAgeAlchemist

I read it a few days ago on Yahoo. The article I looked at didn't mention what tissues they can regrow, From reading it I got the sense that it was only affecting the skin (his nail returned cause the source point wasn't cut off). So muscle and bone might not regenerate? bone I'd be pretty sure about since its a different building process from mitosis, muscle is a maybe?
I read it a few days ago on Yahoo. The article I looked at didn't mention what tissues they can regrow, From reading it I got the sense that it was only affecting the skin (his nail returned cause the source point wasn't cut off). So muscle and bone might not regenerate? bone I'd be pretty sure about since its a different building process from mitosis, muscle is a maybe?

Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

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