Regenerating body parts.

[Queenbutt]

Article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/22/sunday/main3960219.shtml
Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3805459n

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.

It's quite an article comprising of various ways to use this technology. Seeing as these kinds of advancements are taking place every day, when will we be able to get ourselves 'repaired' after a horrific accident? How would it even affect world population? It doesn't seem like a very expensive solution. :/

[Mirrorman]

Whoa, that could be awesome. Think, you lose a limb because of a work accident, they put some powder on it and in like 3 months, you have a new working limb.

[HappyPalooza]

I'll bet it was baking soda. My grandma uses baking soda for everything and swears by it.

[Chrisso]

Can I get multiple dicks with this magic dust?

[Tyler_Legrand]

Does the finger grow back... Longer than usual?

- Cool, two penis jokes already

[Mirrorman]

The only problem is that the person should train the limb from the start so it would probably be pretty problematic to walk on a regrown leg at the start.

[Laced Oysters]

It looks like a penis in the picture.

[Tyler_Legrand]

Could it grow back my ears? :fmita:

[Ox]

The only problem is that the person should train the limb from the start so it would probably be pretty problematic to walk on a regrown leg at the start.

Yes, that does seem like a problem. I know I'd be pretty pissed if I had to re-train my limb... as opposed to walking around with a plastic foot attached to my stump.

[Chrisso]

Would my dick regrow in its erect entirety or its limp minuscularity?

[Hawke]

What if I cut off my head, would my head grow back?

[Mirrorman]

Yes, that does seem like a problem. I know I'd be pretty pissed if I had to re-train my limb... as opposed to walking around with a plastic foot attached to my stump.

Well after a few months it would probably back to its old self, if it really works, then it would be better to feel my leg, than a stump and a plastic thingie.

[Sarge51]

I can picture people going around cutting off their limbs without worry now.

[xkittenxsocksx]

What if I cut off my head, would my head grow back?

I doubt you'd be alive,
just throwing that out there.

[fabz]

Would my dick regrow in its erect entirety or its limp minuscularity?

How does it know when to stop? What happens if I keep putting this powder on my severed cock?! Will it grow to massive lengths? If it can re-grow muscle whats to stop me from putting it on other parts of my body? How did the guy come up with this? Did he say, I've got a small wang let me see if I can't make something that will make it bigger?

[Assassin]

Fucking awesome

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[Mirrorman]

I can picture people going around cutting off their limbs without worry now.

Now they just have to verify it, and bring it to global use.

[Hawke]

I doubt you'd be alive,
just throwing that out there.

ok but what if somebody else put the powder on me? Would come back alive?

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[Mirrorman]

ok but what if somebody else put the powder on me? Would come back alive?

I doubt it, because theres more than tissue and muscle to grow back.

[Hawke]

But it's magic dust!

[Smelz]

That is pretty damn cool, I thought I heard of something like this a while ago in the paper. If they get it working for limbs that would be amazing although I think it's quite a stretch between growing a finger tip and growing a leg. It could be possible though, I know the body can regrow a liver already without help.

[Audioslave]

Anybody else catch the awesome pun in the first few sentences?

[MaxAlcolo]

Wow, this is quite impressive. The tip of a finger isn't that big, but with years of research there's probably something interesting we could use that powder for.
And growing back a head with a nose, mouth, teeth, eyes and brain is just completely stupid. It took 4 weeks to grow the tip of a finger back, you can easily expect 8 months to a year for an entire head. How do you plan on surviving that long without it ?

... oh wait, you've already mastered that.

[FlamingPeanuts]

You could not grow back an organ, you would need the specific adult stem cells for that area and they would have been lost. You could use it to repair an organ however. Im pretty sure your penis has some specialised cells so would not grow back properly.
yay i can spoil eveyones fun!

[Chrisso]

Quit ruining my hopes you faggot.

[Hawke]

And growing back a head with a nose, mouth, teeth, eyes and brain is just completely stupid. It took 4 weeks to grow the tip of a finger back, you can easily expect 8 months to a year for an entire head. How do you plan on surviving that long without it ?

... oh wait, you've already mastered that.

cryogenics of course.

[Ox]

You could not grow back an organ, you would need the specific adult stem cells for that area and they would have been lost. You could use it to repair an organ however. Im pretty sure your penis has some specialised cells so would not grow back properly.
yay i can spoil eveyones fun!

You're boring. Quit being so boring.

[fabz]

Anybody else catch the awesome pun in the first few sentences?

I get it...

You could not grow back an organ, you would need the specific adult stem cells for that area and they would have been lost. You could use it to repair an organ however. Im pretty sure your penis has some specialised cells so would not grow back properly

Since the skin is an organ, techincally the largest one, this stuff can regrow organs. SO THERE.

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Could be pretty useful stuff, would only really be good for small stuff I suppose since if you get your leg cut off your pretty much fucked. I'd hate to think how long it'd take to grow a whole arm or leg back though, 4 weeks for like a 1cm fingertip, I presume it doesn't follow a set formula or a 1 metre limb would take like 8 years to grow back, it would probably still take longer than 4 weeks to grow back a leg though.

[I_Smell]

I don't buy into it. The only proof I saw was some geezer who cut a quarter inch of his finger off. The rest was we expect this and theoretically speaking that. Also it was on an American news article that opened with a pun.

[FlamingPeanuts]

I get it...



Since the skin is an organ, techincally the largest one, this stuff can regrow organs. SO THERE.

I meant a whole organ, if you lost all your skin in a freak lawnmower accident you could not grow it back using this fairy dust.

EDIT: It just speeds up healing, nothing special. He only lost the tip of his finger. Could probably have not wasted his money on magic powder and healed all the same.

[fabz]

I think the fact that this regrew multiple organs, (muscles, skin, nails, capillaries) that it could grow back a severed cock. Why not?

[FlamingPeanuts]

Because it just activates mitosis, causing the wound to heal. and stem cells to become body cells. if you severd off your whole penis this could not take place as the wound woult not contain the cells to make a new penis!

[Ox]

I too am a scientist, well-versed in the intricacies of organ regeneration, posting on an internet-based comic's forum and I disagree!

[elsunchips]

I wonder what the powder won't work on.

[FlamingPeanuts]

I wonder what the powder won't work on.

severed penis.

[elsunchips]

Well, aside from one of those. Does it work on toes and maybe nipples?

[Ox]

It will not work on rocks, breakfast cereals, hadron colliders, post-modernist artwork or spatulas.

[FlamingPeanuts]

It would work on your toe probably, but your nipple could be a bit deformed I guess. How wound you loose just a nipple anyway?

I still think its all just a scam for the monies.

[I_Smell]

If you chopped your arm off, then put the powder on the severed arm, would a person grow out of it?

[El Mojado]

But then again, medical science is getting pretty fucking advanced.

[Ox]

Yeah, so advanced they can't tell a leg from an anus.

[RandomLoserr]

that's...interesting.

[GJ_eurotrash]

If you chopped your arm off, then put the powder on the severed arm, would a person grow out of it?

budget-cloning, I like were this is going.
But I don't understand why 90% of the thread actually believes this is true.
How long would it have taken for his wound to heal without the powder anyway?

[Matterialize]

Could it grow back my ears? :fmita:

Actually, yes. It could grow new eyes for blind people as well.


For the people who're saying "it just speeds up healing":

It will change the body from thinking that it's responding to inflammation and injury, to thinking that it needs to regrow normal tissue.
If you completely sever a finger, it will not grow back. The wound will heal over but your finger will be gone forever. With this stuff, the difference is that they can theoretically re-grow your entire finger. Muscle, bone, the works. And apparently they're already doing it with bladders.

Sucks that businesses are investing in it. If medicine wasn't a big cash cow before, it is now.

[Hickabod]

Did they not learn from the last time someone tired to regenerate limbs?
http://www.marveldirectory.com/pictures/individuals/l_1d/lizard.gif

[Idioteque]

What I want to know is if they can regenerate limbs that were never there in the first place :hmm:

[Derelict]

Hickabod, you son of a bitch, I was just about to post that.

Would it be able to regrow something from a wound already healed? Or would you have to get this shit on there when the wound is fresh? Possibly create a new wound? What about if someone is born without legs, could it grow them some? Or would your body actually have to have already had them?

I want to know what Idioteque wants to know too. Could they alter some part of your DNA or some shit to think you need another limb and put some of this on your ass and get a sweet monkey tail.

[Matterialize]

Probably, but you gotta get messy with genetic engineering for that.

If someone's missing limbs are caused by a genetic fault that's present in every cell in their body, I don't think that this would work, since the re-grown body parts are based on cells from the patient's body. :nerd:

[Derelict]

But what if you changed those? Like what people do with stem cells and shit.

[Spiffy13]

The only bad thing about this is that it's made from pig blatter :ahe:

[Bosskid]

Now we can do this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2L-Z9OJaIPQ

:cool:

[Sarge51]

I wonder if it can regenerate stuff besides body parts.

Like...bread.

[Chrisso]

I wonder if it can regenerate stuff besides body parts.

Like...bread.

I hope you get waterboarded.

[Matterialize]

But what if you changed those? Like what people do with stem cells and shit.

Probably, but you gotta get messy with genetic engineering for that.

[Derelict]

Don't you double quote me!

[Idioteque]

Probably, but you gotta get messy with genetic engineering for that.

If someone's missing limbs are caused by a genetic fault that's present in every cell in their body, I don't think that this would work, since the re-grown body parts are based on cells from the patient's body. :nerd:
Actually, a lot of the time missing limbs are not caused by genetics. In some cases, it was when the baby inside the womb punches outside of the amniotic sac and the limb stops growing. So I wonder even if the limb was never there if it could regrow.
/nerd
Growing a tail would be pretty fucking awesome I must admit

[Matterialize]

Actually, a lot of the time missing limbs are not caused by genetics. In some cases, it was when the baby inside the womb punches outside of the amniotic sac and the limb stops growing. So I wonder even if the limb was never there if it could regrow.
/nerd
Growing a tail would be pretty fucking awesome I must admit

That's not "never there". The limb was there but then it went away, so yes, this would fix that.

[Pieman]

severed penis.

Then I guess you can't grow back the entirety of your head :lol:
Dick head joke, incase someones quoting this and going lolwut?

[junglebunny]

I can already do that, who cares?

[LostInsanity]

There was a television show about this very topic, and what it does is it uses the same way the salamanders regenerate there organs. So no, you cant make anything grow out of the ordinary. Itll be the exact same finger you started with.

[Tyler_Legrand]

How much energy would you need to grow back a limb anyway? Would vegetarians be able to get enough protein for this?

How do you plan on surviving that long without it ?

... oh wait, you've already mastered that.

Good one.

[lifenoob]

This could finally be a useful division between normal people and vegetarians. Normals could regenerate fingers etc quickly, whereas vegetarians would have to eat shitloads of proteins powder to even start quick regen

[Besh]

The humans of the future:

http://www.literatur-kreis.de/bilderfundus/Asiengrafiken/images/GANESH.jpg

[ArrogantFool]

I love the way that when you guys find out that medical science can regrow body parts, your first thought isn't "Wow, how fantastic for people who have been in serious accidents!" but "Can it make my penis bigger?"

[Pieman]

I love the way that when you guys find out that medical science can regrow body parts, your first thought isn't "Wow, how fantastic for people who have been in serious accidents!" but "Can it make my penis bigger?"


You love us wanting bigger penises? What are you, some sort of gay?

[Tyler_Legrand]

SUPER gay. Let's shun him.

[FlamingPeanuts]

I thought gays where fans of penis?

[Mirrorman]

budget-cloning, I like were this is going.
But I don't understand why 90% of the thread actually believes this is true.
How long would it have taken for his wound to heal without the powder anyway?

As far as I know, an inch of your finger doesn't grow back usually.

[Tyler_Legrand]

The only bad thing about this is that it's made from pig blatter :ahe:

Utter =/= Udder.
Blatter =/= Bladder.

You're welcome.

[Bleeding_Llama]

I can picture people going around cutting off their limbs without worry now.

Sweet idea. Would be way better if it didnt work and 90% of the world was quadruple amputees XD

[frescoSteph]

Whoa, that could be awesome. Think, you lose a limb because of a work accident, they put some powder on it and in like 3 months, you have a new working limb.

4 weeks.

[Sarge51]

4 Weeks is surprisingly damn quick. My Mom just got surgery on her foot and she has to wait 4 weeks before she can stand again. Just think if she could've just cut the foot off and grew a completely new one!! ...Or would the foot have the same defects as before?

[Zoria]

Yes, if for what she was getting surgery on was genetic. Stem cells of your body still have the genetic material that you have, so you'd still be screwed. This video was awesome. I'm in 3rd year molecular biology and biotechnology, and it's nice to see I will have some sweet jobs to look forward to when I graduate. Biology kicks physics and chemistry's ass. There, I said it.

[Mr Anorexia]

Biology kicks physics and chemistry's ass. There, I said it.
:eyespop: You're crazy!

[Slash3040]

It would be rather sweet if you could make profit from said things. Haha sell people hands!

[gordanthefree]

This is kind of weird, sounds like a hoax, but I haven't seen the link in the first post. Is it really that convincing?

Kind of cool because you could become a stunt athlete and just re-grow your arms and legs.

[Roonis]

itd be nice but it simply cant be true ^^ ... people dont regrow body parts ... its simply not posible...
only way for science to go is to make real life prosthetic limbs or smthing ... you loose ur arm they sew a nother one right on ... ;P ...

[Tyler_Legrand]

You dropped your dots

Why is everyone speculating whether it's true or not? You're not the ones doing the experiments.

[MrDoctor]

I think everyone is thinking it's a little far fetched for today's technology.

[pure_hatred]

It would not make your penis bigger. Your small penis is dictated by your crappy genetics. This powder stimulates your genetics into rebuilding the tissue instead of just leaving a scarred stump. So if you cut off your penis, survived the massive blood loss, and used this powder, you'd still be left with a pathetically small penis.

As someone with an A level in Human Biology, this is incredibly interesting and does sound theoretically possible. For those of you saying it takes 4 weeks to regrow limbs, you're morons. It took 4 weeks to regrow an inch of a finger. An entire arm would take fucking months. The arm/leg would still be fully functional like normal after the healing process was complete.

[Ox]

It would not make your penis bigger. Your small penis is dictated by your crappy genetics. This powder stimulates your genetics into rebuilding the tissue instead of just leaving a scarred stump. So if you cut off your penis, survived the massive blood loss, and used this powder, you'd still be left with a pathetically small penis.

As someone with an A level in Human Biology, this is incredibly interesting and does sound theoretically possible. For those of you saying it takes 4 weeks to regrow limbs, you're morons. It took 4 weeks to regrow an inch of a finger. An entire arm would take fucking months. The arm/leg would still be fully functional like normal after the healing process was complete.

Please, doctor, tell us more of the findings you have gathered from one year's worth of studying in the public school system.

[pure_hatred]

Nah, I'd only confuse you :cheerio:

[Ox]

You must've got an A level in wit as well.

[Laced Oysters]

You must've got an A level in wit as well.

Don't give him any credit; that's an easy class.

[FlamingPeanuts]

This just causes the cells to reproduce. It could not make a whole fucking arm! Normally if you cut your finger off the cells would reproduce enough to make a stub, because its the best way to survive, a fast recovery using the smallest amount of energy. But this just makes the cells grow more and makes the stub into your fingertip. Its ok when its just somthign simple like a fingertip, but a whole finger is much more complex, using joints, where muscle is connected to ect.

Also I googled this and it makes your nails grow realy fast too, the guy has to trim them every 2 days, so it does improve the rate of healing dramatically.

[Sarge51]

Nails growing. That's freaking cool! I'd let them grow out to a ridiculous size and poke stuff from afar. Till I get bored, then finally cut them.

In any case. It's not being said that THIS could regrow a full arm or anything. But that the 'technology' can be used to possibly one day actually regrow full limbs.

[John1015]

This is good news for chickens who get their head chopped of by a farmer.

[I_Smell]

i agree it is definitly good news for chikens

[Cristo]

Oh my God what has Explosm become.

I say we just shut down registering for the forum for the next 2 months.

[Lag]

This is good news for chickens who get their head chopped of by a farmer.

Wait, why? The chickens are dead if they have their head cut off, and this powder is only for regenerating small parts of people limbs at a time anyways.