Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells

One step closer to getting my kangaroo legs...

A few pig cells, a single surgery and a rigorous daily workout: They’re the three ingredients that patients will need to re-grow fresh, functional slabs of their own muscle, courtesy of Pentagon-backed science that’s already being used to rebuild parts of people.
Wired.com article

reply to post by RedParrotHead


Holy crap. Looks like a part of Nemesis from Resident Evil.

This looks to be promising if they can get by those..."interesting" *cough* *cough* aesthetic side effects. I mean I understand that this can help soldiers who have lost entire CHUNKS of their body parts. Promising indeed

the "foot clan" experimented with similar technologies in the 90's.. they had mediocre results