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Posted by French Toast on Sun Sep 11th at 6:21pm 2005

Woah!

That is pretty damn crazy.

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Posted by Crono on Sun Sep 11th at 9:56pm 2005

With enough research, this would be an amazing advancement in repairing optic nerves. Something we've never been able to help, we always just go around.

I've seen some other stuff like this, with cell suggestion and such. It's cool and potentially life saving work. Too bad there's always groups of people who will blindly hate the procedure, even though, one day, someone in their family's life will be saved by it.

I think the only thing I don't agree with is complete human cloning, since we already have enough people. However! Using a person to clone an organ for them is a fantastic idea.


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Posted by Windows 98 on Sun Sep 11th at 9:59pm 2005

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Posted by French Toast on Sun Sep 11th at 10:05pm 2005

Harumph. One of these threads must be deleted. My internet did some wierd things and I somehow ended up with the double post.

But yeah, that whole eye thing I was thinking of as well. With this, mayhap it would be possible to do eye transplants for those who have lost eyes, and then your body would repair all those bagizillions of little nerve thingys by itself.




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Posted by fishy on Sun Sep 11th at 10:05pm 2005

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Posted by wil5on on Mon Sep 12th at 7:53am 2005

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It is quite remarkable. The only organ that did not grow back was the brain.

Aha! Supermouse's one weakness.

This will be awesome when/if humans can use it. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! Its Axolotl man!




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Posted by Gaara on Mon Sep 12th at 8:05am 2005

If the brain did grow back I wonder what mind the subject would have.

Lol if it ever does happen for people I wonder how they will test it...





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Posted by Madedog on Mon Sep 12th at 11:57am 2005

I'd be a tester gladly :P I'd get rid of my toe which has bad toenail edges and then let them grow it back as good as it was before the "accident" :P



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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Mon Sep 12th at 12:01pm 2005

Actually I would chop off my right arm, if it would grow back like it should be. I broke it in 2003 and although it "works" again it's still only a mere shadow of its former self.


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Posted by Cash Car Star on Tue Sep 13th at 6:13am 2005

In all honestly, I think we're much closer to giving humans the ability to mentally control a prosthesis than to regrowing full limbs...

I also believe that regular news reporters shouldn't be allowed to write stories on biotechnological advances, because they always seem to completely overlook key elements of the findings in order to daydream about what life could be like. That's not reporting. For example, the mice in question didn't regrow hearts. They regrew pieces of their respectives hearts. It seems highly irrational that a mouse which suddenly had no heart would stick around in the realm of the living long enough to manufacture a new one. Also, scale is exceptionally important in something like this. Insects can use secreted liquids to cling to smooth vertical and upside-down surfaces. Would it be appropriate to say that scientists are on the verge of inserting this behavior into the human genome just because they've observed it in insects?





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Posted by Gaara on Tue Sep 13th at 9:47am 2005

Yeah I agree reporters leave out ALOT of the complications involved.


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