Man regrows finger?!

Ben M said:
You say that like I actually put more thought into my post than what first occured to me.

But with some sort of medicinal wizadry I'm sure you could concoct some sort of formula of the right hormones required to stimulate the correct type of cells to grow.
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People have been trying for centuries yet we stall haven't done it to any reasonable extent.

It's just hat most of tissue will just form scar tissue, and doesn't really have the ability to grow back a limb etc, hence a lot of the buzz about stem cells.
 
What's so impressive about that? From that video it looks like the amount of finger cut off was just a bit of pulp from the end so it was cut back to the level of the distal end of the nail Even when it's supposed to have 'regenerated' it still looks mangled, it's just it's covered with healthy looking skin.... Would be interesting to see what the magical 'salamander dust' actually was though.
 
looking at the video i don't think he lost anything like half an inch from his finger. looks like about 4-5mm tops. i've heard of people who have regrown the last few mm of their finger instead of it just scarring over.
think this is just a bit of exaggeration to help publicise the doctors new technique so he can get funding. all researchers need to get funding
 
Zuma said:
looking at the video i don't think he lost anything like half an inch from his finger. looks like about 4-5mm tops. i've heard of people who have regrown the last few mm of their finger instead of it just scarring over.
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I cut the last ~3mm off my thumb cutting vegetables about a year ago.:( It's grown back fine, with normal sensation etcjust as before. And I didn't use any pixie dust, I held the flap in place until the blood clotted and wrapped a plaster around it.. :o
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
I cut the last ~3mm off my thumb cutting vegetables about a year ago.:( It's grown back fine, with normal sensation etcjust as before. And I didn't use any pixie dust, I held the flap in place until the blood clotted and wrapped a plaster around it.. :o
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thats different. you didn't cut the end off. if you had the skin would have grown flat over the missing flesh :(
 
No, I cut a bit of flesh off as well, though admittedly not much at all. Besides which, the guy in that vid didn't cut the end off, he mangled a small bit off. and by the looks of it skin has just grown over it. It's a non-story, he's just chatting ****.
 
I broke a leg in a fight a few years ago, left shin bone snapped right out my leg, with bits of skins with bubbles of fat etc

Once I eventially got seen in hosptial (sat night) they had to cut away dead flesh, and the nurse said that it would cover up scar and fill out. Years later, it didn't. You can feel the sharpness of the bone very easily.

It would have been great to have some fairy dust for that, and my nose. :p
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
What's so impressive about that? From that video it looks like the amount of finger cut off was just a bit of pulp from the end so it was cut back to the level of the distal end of the nail Even when it's supposed to have 'regenerated' it still looks mangled, it's just it's covered with healthy looking skin.... Would be interesting to see what the magical 'salamander dust' actually was though.
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BBC News said it was pig stomach.
 
I lost from the tip to the area just beyond the skin joins my finger nail on my middle finger & it healed perfect within weeks to the amazement to everyone that seen it when I sliced it off.

Not as bad as shown above but not far off tbh, the angle of the clips above make it look worse the it probably was as you can clearly see he didnt lose that much of his finger nail.
 
Teki187 said:
Well they could grow an ear on rats around 10 years ago, so this isn't much of a surprise.
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That was a completely different method though which involved encouraging cartilage to grow around an existing frame, this is encouraging the growth of multiple types of tissue into a form predetermined by DNA only... quite extraordinary if you ask me.
 
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