[fight_truth_decay]

A tadpole has an extra eye growing in its gut (indicated with red circle) thanks to Tufts University scientists who manipulated electrical signals in gut cells to spark eye development.Sherry Aw, Vaibhav Pai, M. Levin

[donhunt]

Has anyone informed Kermit about this?

[Sacajaweau]

Like I've said, the real object of all this cell manipulation has always been to sell body parts retail. You thing the drug companies are crooks...wait till this takes hold.

They won't want folks to sign off to "take my parts". Retail will be much more profitable.

[Vince Ferrer]

A long time ago I read a book called The Body Electric, whose authoor had done some experiments similar to this. He was very sure that missing limbs could be regenerated even in species that did not have that ability, by artificially stimulating the wound with electrical currents. I had always wondered what became of that research, and if it had led to anything.

[struggle]

Let’s focus on real beauty:

I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

[loveliberty2]

And, today Dr. Oz showed an actual surgery where a patient who had had a mastectomy later underwent a surgical procedure to rebuild her breast, using a now-experimental process which removes fat from one part of the body, injects it with her own harvested stem cells, and a new breast grows.

There followed a discussion about other experiments now being conducted with veterans who have lost limbs, and the potential for regrowing them using stem cells.

[dragonblustar]

Maybe this could be used to have the GOP in Congress grow a spine.

[hellbender]

The tadpole has an eye growing in its gut

Great. Maybe someday we won't need to undergo colonoscopies. We can look in on our own innards.

[Razzz42]

One of the financial guys I was listening was saying that if you could live another 10 or 20 years that would be long enough to see replacement body parts grown with the patient’s own stem cells become the norm thus making people’s life spans even better.

They grew a trachea in the lab and transplanted to a patient successfully using his own stems cells, took a week to grow it.

http://www.courant.com/health/la-he-trachea-qanda-20110709,0,4418428.story

Good success in growing teeth in mice although not fed by the blood stream, they can be implanted and crowned.

[adorno]

Finally, there is hope for liberals!

Perhaps some day, that procedure can be used to grow them some brains.

[martin_fierro]

One day, Levin says, someone who loses an arm or leg might be able to slip on a special sleeve that will electrically stimulate cells at the wound site to regrow the missing limb.

We've been doing this on Teh Intarwebz for years.