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- Maybe that's what Jesus used on the people that he healedby buddhistdude
- Jesus, if he existed, didn't actually heal anyone or perform any miracles. That's mythology, not reality.by krapp
- > Maybe that's what Jesus used on the people that he healed
I think this is what all healers used. They were all way ahead of their time and clearly misunderstood.
by cheema33 - Judge not, lest ye be denied CRISPR.by abroadwin
- In the whole Christian tradition, God/Jesus generally does not go for organ or limb regeneration. Two counter examples are a healed ear in Luke (but this may well have been resumption of hearing? details are a little light), and then a single Spanish example in the 1600s.
For His own mysterious reasons, He simply doesn’t go in for that stuff, however much intercessionary prayer ends up in His inbox.
by petesergeant - Perhaps humans can one day regrow their teeth for better food ingestion when elderly and cognitive function.by fsiefken
- Wasn't this proven many years ago by a random guy who used a "extra-cellular matrix" of stem cells to regrow his severed finger, nail and all?
Found it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7354458.stm
- No, the end of your finger just can grow back. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854...
Dude's brother had him throw his product on the finger as it did so, definitely an astute marketing trick. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/01/finger.claim
by lazyasciiart - I'm hoping that this can be applied to routine genital mutilation in humans that are often done near birth and without consent.by kittikitti
- It's just hidden by a feature flag.
(Probably for a good reason)
by gste - Evolution is so smart.by yehosef
- tbh I think it's probably just commented out (and is about as likely to still work as any other commented-out code)
- The trick is to make regeneration fast enough to heal the wound without making fast enough to cause cancer. Maybe even supported by provisional fibrosis.by anticensor
- Whoa, sounds like your recommending some sort of healing mechanism like those human animals haveby malfist
- Does that mean zebra fish with their ability to regrow the retina get cancer at a higher rate?by ck_one
- In a study they figured out that organs seem to have an electrical potential range as a signature/command for stem cells for which organ to build and where.
In a frog they were able to grow legit eyes in the gut just by artificialy inducing a certain voltage in that area. No need for any cell transplantations: the voltage really seems to be the only signal needed.
This might also be how it might be done in the future in humans: block scar tissue then induce voltage with the signature of the organ you wish to regrow.
by NotGMan - Not a single mention of the work on limb regeneration by Professor Michael Levin's lab at Tufts?
https://as.tufts.edu/biology/tufts-center-regenerative-and-d...
by david-gpu - Was waiting for your comment.by joedevon
- He builds (albeit nothing really meaningful) on top of the work of Robert O. Becker, I highly suggest you read his book "The Body Electric".by apicaesar
- I’m surprised this does not mention humans can grow back the tips of their fingers (past the white part of cuticle) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854... Supposed to be only kids but I’ve chopped off a few mm by accident it came back as an adult or I can’t tell the difference.by stevenwoo
- Liver as well, but I have no idea if that's the same underlying phenomenon.by stymaar
- 2 years I ago I sliced maybe 1.5mm frommy thumb-tip; when taking off the bandage, I could clearly see the "straight cut" and that some material was missing.
Until today, it recovered completely
- The exact same thing happened to me. I chopped off a good half a cm with an axe when splitting firewood about 5 years ago. After no less than 6 months there wasn’t any sign of the mutilation.by adamors
- Does your fingerprint look normal? When I was a kid I was goofing around with a pair of scissors and lopped off a good chunk of the pad of one finger. Thirty years later my fingerprint looks like a bunch of little dots at that location. The ridges never grew back properly.by roarcher
- Retina is a good example of this. Zebrafish can regrow damaged retina, but while mammals have the same stem cells (Muller glia), they dont repair the retina, but form scar tissue. There is a lot of research and I think they have managed to modify rat genome, so that their retina has showns some repair abilities. The problem is that it often causes tumors.
I have other retina permanently damaged, and suffer from double vision when looking small objects like text.
by csr86 - > The problem is that it often causes tumors.
This short video talks about telomere-snipping transcription factors that make seemingly-dead cells revert to normal or even to stem cells, but the factors only act when under artificially-maintained conditions:
by yencabulator - Ah, I was wondering the evolutionary reason why those genes would have gone dormant.
Cancer is a sensible answer.
by cortesoft