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Biology Regrowing Limbs, Ppl who lost their limbs, can rejoice?

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TSWinston LYN
post Jul 11 2009, 12:49 PM, updated 17y ago

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The gold standard for limb regeneration is the salamander, which can grow perfect replacements for lost body parts throughout its lifetime. Understanding how can provide a road map for human limb regeneration.
The early responses of tissues at an amputation site are not that different in salamanders and in humans, but eventually human tissues form a scar, whereas the salamander’s reactivate an embryonic development program to build a new limb.
Learning to control the human wound environment to trigger salamanderlike healing could make it possible to regenerate large body parts.

Okay guys, here is the link Source.

I've read about this article long ago from MSN websites... US government is now putting their budgets to research on this promising project. Not only using Salamander's theory, also using Stem Cell theory. My question is...will this be feasible in our time to come? Since human genome project is 90% complete. In other words, once we've understood every human genes we can also regrow back lost parts and or smaller important human organs.

No need to wait for donors...user posted image

This post has been edited by Winston LYN: Jul 11 2009, 01:00 PM
TSWinston LYN
post Jul 11 2009, 03:49 PM

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By that time, prosthetic limbs are useless. We just need to regrow lost parts and we can live a much more healthier life.
TSWinston LYN
post Jul 12 2009, 11:25 PM

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What is other organs in the body like the kidney.
There are so many people have kidney problems.
If the tech allow scientist to 'grow' kidney with the patient's tissue sample, the patient no need to undergo painful blood filter process.

However, will it cause another social problem as people will think that maintaining their health of their body is not necessary as we can exchange a new one!
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Not necessary... because this is a painstaking process that may take long time to grow another organ out. As ppl who have studied Bio before would have known the process : Cell > Tissue > Organ.

So we would need to grow a lot of cells then in turn grow different tissues to form an organ. So health care is still nonetheless still very important to us. We should be afraid of ppl misusing this idea into something terrible...I fear most.
TSWinston LYN
post Jul 19 2009, 11:27 PM

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Yup, so far now scientist are only able to clone another life by only using the simplest method. Like the sheep dolly method. However, if cloning parts of human organ is by far still need a lot research to be done in order to fully perfect this science. Oh wow where u did ur industrial training? So cool dude, I wish those ppl who lost their limbs can finally have their lost parts again.



 

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