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Major cell regeneration breakthrough

So we're all going to become your avatar, minus adamantium claws and skeleton.

ETA- dammit, 1 minute too slow on the Wolverine joke.
 
You all seem to have missed a huge part of the story.

[h=1]Ohio State researchers report breakthrough in cell regeneration[/h]
This will assure O$U of Big Ten dominance for a generation or at least until University of Michigan researchers catch up. O$U will never have season ending injuries and Urban will reheal himself and coach for 50 years.

In leg experiments involving mice, researchers placed the chip on the animals’ wounded legs, delivered the appropriate genetic material, and saw blood vessels grown to regenerate limbs within seven to 14 days, Sen said. Legs that otherwise would have turned black and required amputation were pink, and the mice were able to run again.
In brain experiments on mice, the chip was again placed on the leg, different genetic material was dropped on, and neurological cells grew in the area. Three weeks later, scientists detected firing neurons, and the new cells were taken from the leg and inserted into the brain.
The leg-healing process was duplicated in pigs after the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, expressed interest. Sen said the technology could be used to heal troops in the field. One caveat: It must be deployed within 72 hours of a limb being damaged.
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PhDeac said:
You all seem to have missed a huge part of the story.

[h=1]Ohio State researchers report breakthrough in cell regeneration[/h]
This will assure O$U of Big Ten dominance for a generation or at least until University of Michigan researchers catch up. O$U will never have season ending injuries and Urban will reheal himself and coach for 50 years.
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"The leg-healing process was duplicated in pigs after the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, expressed interest."

I think the upshot of this story is I never knew how many pigs had injured legs until now.
 
"In leg experiments involving mice, researchers placed the chip on the animals’ wounded legs, delivered the appropriate genetic material, and saw blood vessels grown to regenerate limbs within seven to 14 days, Sen said. Legs that otherwise would have turned black and required amputation were pink, and the mice were able to run again."

Also, remember in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker got his hand cut off and they replace it with a robotic arm that was just as good as new? Well, they really got that one wrong.
 
MichDeac25 said:
"The leg-healing process was duplicated in pigs after the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, expressed interest."

I think the upshot of this story is I never knew how many pigs had injured legs until now.
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Well clearly there are some Wake Sig Eps working at Walter Reed.
 
MichDeac25 said:
"In leg experiments involving mice, researchers placed the chip on the animals’ wounded legs, delivered the appropriate genetic material, and saw blood vessels grown to regenerate limbs within seven to 14 days, Sen said. Legs that otherwise would have turned black and required amputation were pink, and the mice were able to run again."

Also, remember in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker got his hand cut off and they replace it with a robotic arm that was just as good as new? Well, they really got that one wrong.
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Well that was a long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. I'm sure they have the best regeneration tech by now.
 
So it looks like they start the regeneration process on the person's leg by coding the growing cells for whatever they are supposed to be, and then move them to the damaged area once they are jumpstarted. So what happens if some of the cells get left on the person's leg ... Would they have a brain growing on their leg? Could we have an actual Third Leg Greg?
 
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