[snarks_when_bored]

This is on-going research, but if what's happening with these mice is verified and can be fully understood, the implications for human tissue regeneration could be huge.

[snarks_when_bored]

Ping

[airborne]

Spinal cord regeneration?

[atomicpossum]

Then there's hope for Donald Trump.

[PatrickHenry]

None of the sources I regularly scan is reporting this. At the moment, I'm skeptical. It looks like those wild stories that routinely come from the Russian tabloids. But we shall see.

[Maurice Tift]

It's just that awkward time between falling into farm machinery and having your arms grow back fully...

[clee1]

Nothing is too high for the daring or mortals;
they storm heaven in their folly.
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus

[majorskeptic]

It would be nice to discover just how to help evolution along just a bit to allow for some of these 'miracles'. This is why evolution is important, we can possibly live much longer and with better health.

[airborne]

PING!

[marty60]

My last angioplasty showed that my body was doing it's own bypass.

[Havoc]

"When we injected fetal liver cells taken from those animals into ordinary mice

Play it up and save the how for later.. disgusting.

[pau1f0rd]

I once read a thread on FR about human tissue regeneration. I can't find the thread now. Posters were claiming that tips of toes and fingers can grow back, especially babies'. Don't try it at home though.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Let me be the first one to bow to our new mouse overlords.

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

We were still talking about this being 20 or 30 years away.

From a healthcare point of view maybe that's still true.

[Kevin OMalley]

amazing, read later bump

[GovernmentShrinker]

If the regeneration is occurring with telomere length matching that of the rest of the animal, the benefits will be huge for quality of life, but have little effect on length of life.

Frankly, it scares me a little that we may be getting close to massive extension of average lifespan. Not that I don't want to see it happen, but society is totally unprepared for it, and it's likely to lead to a Lord of the Flies type culture for quite a while, as population explodes, and people compete for resources that are becoming scarce (in the per person sense) at a frightening speed. Also, the technology is not likely to be cheap for the first generation or two that it's available, and we will have to face the hard question very fast of who gets it and who doesn't. It may be wonderful in the long run, but in the short run things will get very ugly.

[winner3000]

ALL OF US SHOULD REMEMBER THAT IF PETA HAD ITS WAY, THIS TYPE OF LIFE SAVING RESEARCH WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING.

[Old Professer]

In the short term it could provide a brand new diet for house cats ala smorgasbord.

[azhenfud]

I recall the FedGov's funding of a program at Duke Medical in the early eighties for growing mice tails back. I thought "What!?!?", but I see I was two decades blind.

[HitmanLV]

WOW!!!!!!