Comments on: Regrowing Human Limbs

By: MARCIA

MARCIA — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:10:06 +0000

I dont think this is a joke, sounds promising to me. I am awaiting kidney it would be a life-changing expirence if they could grow me a kidney. I am sure others on hemo-dialysis would agree hopefully if the pro's are greater than the con's. I am hoping that this will be a medical breakthroug for the thousands on dialysis.

By: G

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:50:36 +0000

Wow! I was wondering about this myself. Sure it sounds far fetched but doesn't every new and strange (almost impossible) concept?

By: Rosi

Rosi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:03:43 +0000

NO! Haven't they learned anything from comics? That's how Hulk was created!

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:19:13 +0000

I guess Shiva is an example of clinical trials gone wrong

By: emptyminded

emptyminded — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:15:36 +0000

Thank God they're using salamanders. Look what happened when Dr. Curt Conners used a crocodile as a base model.

By: Miett

Miett — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:46:02 +0000

It reminds me of Madeline L'Engle's book, Arm of the Starfish. I read it when I was little, and was sure limb regrowth would be happening by the time I was an adult.

Exciting stuff!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:58:47 +0000

I worked on a similar project for my post-doc work.

Unfortunately after going thru all my funding, I could only get humans to regrow their appendix or tonsils.

Needless to say, the Nobel slipped thru my fingers once again.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:58:24 +0000

Sadly, it takes approx. 18 years to grow a full adult limb.

By: Quasi_Mojo

Quasi_Mojo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:37:09 +0000

As Scientific American annually runs an April Fools article, I wonder if this will be this year's April Fools article.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:58:29 +0000

Why does this sound familiar?
Hrm...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Crazylizzy.gif