Growing A New Bird (finger)...

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Growing A New Finger... [run time: 59 seconds]
regenerative medicine article
By Matthew Price
BBC News, Ohio

Quote:
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.

Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.

It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or "pixie dust" as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.

Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.

For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.

"The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.

"It took about four weeks before it was sealed."

Now he says he has "complete feeling, complete movement."

The "pixie dust" comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.

British Broadcasting Corporation News

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funny how these ground breaking advances in science go unnoticed (put this up a few months ago). I wonder how much excellent science gets kicked under the table just because it doesn't take off with the good blessing of the consumer. They never find out = they don't want it? or are not interested? = even when they don't know they really need it, they don't want it = The Electric Car

......yeah I thought this was "chilling" and very important. what could be more important....still trying to understand the moon or manipulating and mastering molecular components for weapons????