The man who grew a finger! With PIXIE DUST?

"...in what top scientists commonly believe is a miracle"

That Futurama quote...so apt!

I...can't believe this. Are they basically saying it's likely that someone who loses an entire limb would grow it back? They know it's May 1st and not April, right?

I...seriously can't believe it. Amazing if true, a completely unfunny joke if not.

It truly is a miracle. It's something I thought I never would have heard of in my life, or even my children or their children would have heard of.

Magic Dust that regrows limbs, are we going to be attending Hogwarts next? This is truly something out of Harry Potter. It's amazing and hard to believe that something this great could be true.

hrmmm...

I know this is a bit off topic, but all I can keep thinking is at home boob jobs, and some dude using this on his privates for "male enhancement"

sorry... had to get it off my chest.

Coven

I bet John Bobbit had this when his.......


Sorry I had to get THAT off MY chest.



Back on topic.

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I am completely flabergasted. This is the sort of thing I love to read about. Real leaps in our abilities. Fantastic!

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Here we go down the tube. Next we'll have John Holmes (well endowed) types donating a piece that you can attach, then sprinkle some magic dust and watch it grow.

No doubt the next replacement for steroids. Athletes buying & selling tissue to create better athletes.

Opens up a whole new can of worms doesn't it?

Originally posted by verylowfrequency
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Here we go down the tube. Next we'll have John Holmes (well endowed) types donating a piece that you can attach, then sprinkle some magic dust and watch it grow.

No doubt the next replacement for steroids. Athletes buying & selling tissue to create better athletes.

Opens up a whole new can of worms doesn't it?

Hairloss? hehe

Originally posted by coven
hrmmm...

I know this is a bit off topic, but all I can keep thinking is at home boob jobs, and some dude using this on his privates for "male enhancement"

sorry... had to get it off my chest.

Coven

Why would it work like that? Did he grow in a huge fingertip?

dude let me step out of the box here for a second and please bear with me but why do people post stuff thats already everywhere else here isnt it just cluttering this place with overinformation, isnt it like making muliple copies of a word document on your hard drive that will never get erased?

we're here or at least some of us to figure out just what the underworld is up to and anyone comming here to get their tabloid news is just plain lazy. yeah i said it, this place is turning into a tabloid mirror and mostly due to people trying to rack up points by finding whatever they can that will start a long thread.

well i could be wrong but like i said i'm thinking outside the box here

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Since when has the BBC been a tabloid? I agree in other cases where people are pulling news from sources equivalent to the National Enquirer, but this is the BBC. It is a very credible news source.

That finger was pretty nasty!
I wonder what the shelf life on the cells would be?


*I predict a future rise in severed limbs due to an increase in Japanese sword popularity, steriods and magical pixie dust.

The article makes me think of Kirlian Photograhpy, how an amputated arm will show up in a kirlian picture, or tear a leaf apart and photograph it and the torn part of the leaf is still there in a kirlian picture. Maybe our bodies want to heal themselves, replace that which is broken but can't without some type of regenerative boost, no matter what that boost is, even if it is man made it is still made of something from this earth, just maybe they have found that 'something'.

Originally posted by The Nighthawk
NO WAY would Big Pharma let something like this hit the market. Everything they do is geared toward keeping people on meds or in need of constant replacement of prosthetics for their whole lives. This kind of miracle, if real, would severely hurt their bottom line

The voice of reason. Sorry folks but it's time to wake up and recognize that your government doesn't care about you. This would never hit the market for general use until they find something much better and its been decades later.

Don't be so naive as to think this would be rushed out to a shelf near you.

- Lee

Does anyone know what Pixie dust is? I have no clue i did a search on it and i all i got was a fictional dust they used in the movie Peter Pan. But really what is it???

Well it did not happen by accident. The land of Isis Ra and El has been and will always be fought over. Until the Jews find some common sense and just buy a nice piece of property..Like Poland Something with less dust and Arabs. Oh and before they leave for a land where something other than misery can grow they need too nuke the area so nobody gets it. Just IMHO

We should have shipped all the Germans out of Germany at the end of the war and given it too the Jews.....Now that would be some karma for your azzz.

Actually, I only wanted to post and say that whether this man grew bone is not relevant. Re-growing the ability to grow fingernails is amazing.

Found this Patent article which lends credence to the story

While this was going on, Dr. Alan R. Spievack, a
surgeon at Harvard, was studying the reconstructive
uses of basement membranes separated from epithelia.
In 1996, he attended a conference where Badylak
gave a paper on the uses of small-intestinal submucosa,
and thereafter, the two occasionally exchanged
information.

On page 11 of the document..25 Biotechnology Law Report 557

Damn - I'ld give my right arm for some of that dust!!

Amazing if true.

But a bit too strange to be believed.

Hmm.. I wonder what would happen if you just took the stuff nasally, and watched what would happen to your face and body?

I wonder if you'd have strange growths coming out of your FACE and ears..lol

I just wanna say : "told u so" , i always knew this, how? because it says this in my religious books - vedas. we are just realizing some of the techniques that man knew a million years ago

# ing awesome,

bring it onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn