Originally published at: "Bioreactor dome" and drug cocktail enables frog to regrow lost leg | Boing Boing
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I think they misspelled “Bacta tank”.
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The new limbs had bone structure extended with features similar to a natural limb’s bone structure, a richer complement of internal tissues, including neurons, and several “toes” grew from the end of the limb, although without the support of underlying bone
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Huh, so it grew “a limb” rather than an actual (or functional) leg, per se. Interesting. Soon they’ll hopefully be able to fully regenerate frogs’ legs. (Thus making les cuisse de grenouille a fully sustainable food!)
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This reminds me of a scene in the final season of The Expanse. A guy has his arm amputated, and the doctor sticks his stump in a clear jar of some sort of yellow fluid. After a few days, a new arm starts to grow.
A grown man with a baby arm in jar. He looked like a crab.
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You had me at Bioreactor Dome… wait. what?
I have a memory of reading an article about using magnetism to regrow a child’s fingertip. I think it was in Wired but like so many of my memories, it may not have actually happened at all.
A quick google reveals that children may regrow fingertips, but adults can’t.
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Twin helps other twin to regrow thumb:
I remember hearn bout this a while ago. One of the twins was a scientist experimenting w/a powder.
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- I don’t remember this. I looked up the scientist, Dr Stephen Badylak from Pitt. I found a short 2019 TEDx talk by him summarizing the research problems with regeneration.
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mmm one frog = unlimited supply of boneless legs… can they do this with a chicken? … or a french fry?
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