Pixie Dust grows back finger

[walker 0]

Hi all

Too Wierd for words just watch the video.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7376191.stm

Some text on the thing.

Quote[/b] ]Humans can regrow fingers?

Julia Layton

When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger.

Months later, he had regrown it, tissue, nerves, skin, fingernail and all.

This particular hobbyist happened to have a brother in the tissue-regeneration business, who told him to forego the skin graft and instead apply a powdered extract taken from pig's bladder to the raw finger tip. The extract, called extracellular matrix, lays the framework that cells use to generate any given body part. It's like a cellular scaffolding, and all animals have it. It holds the signals that direct cells to divide, differentiate and build themselves into a specific form.

Extracellular matrix is a component of body tissue that functions outside of the body's cells (thus the "extracellular" designation). It's made up mostly of collagen, a type of protein. So extracellular matrix extracted from the bladder of a pig does not actually have any of the pig's cells in it...

http://health.howstuffworks.com/extracellular-matrix.htm

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[MehMan 0]

Amazing, I was reading this earlier and it truly is amazing.

[walker 0]

Hi all

Some more

A detailed video from CBS

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/tools/the_age_of_mira_1.php

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[Viper23rd 0]

That is pretty amazing, could serve it's purpose very well.

Yours,

[walker 0]

Hi all

It is the technology's use in recovering from wounds that interests me.

I am surprised that it is not being taken up more quickly. That said any new technology has to be tested.

My father has heart problems and the suggestion of its use in the repair of post heart attack damage is of great interest. The doctors usually say, once you loose a bit of your heart due to heart attack damage, it never repairs; being able to repair the heart even to the level of blood vessels would be amazing.

Kind Regards walker

[MehMan 0]

I wonder how this would work in nerve reconstruction and thus giving paralyzed people their legs back.

[walker 0]

I wonder how this would work in nerve reconstruction and thus giving paralyzed people their legs back.

Hi all

The guy with the grown back finger said he has his normal sense of touch with his grown back finger.

I also cut off the tip of a finger. When I was working as specialist welder. The technology we were using was very advanced continuous welding and involved unusual metals and required that the edges to be joined were ground to a very sharp edge. To test the edge was sharp we would run our finger lightly over the edge to see if the skin caught, if it caught then the edge was not sharp enough.

This particular day I also set the machine to run while doing the test so the edge was traveling faster than I would normally run my finger over the edge. I felt nothing so I thought that is a good edge. Then I noticed a lump of something moving along the conveyor toward the welding point, since the area was one step short of clean room and normally cleaner than your kitchen I was surprised. I picked it up with right hand it was a pink rubbery oval thing varying by about 1/2 an inch to 1/4 of an inch in diameter. It had lots of little red dots on it on the side I was looking at. I looked up at ceiling to see if that was the source, some ceiling tile screw cover or some such I thought. Nope.

I then looked down again as I rolled it over onto its other face it felt squishy like rubber. I then saw the fingerprint and held up left hand with missing index finger tip. Went Oh! in my head and proceeded to put it back on at roughly the right angle and ran off to the first aid station where they looked at it, said not much could be done, put a plaster and finger shield around it, and told me that maybe it would rejoin. I did not even get a sick day for it.

It did rejoin though the finger print is miss-aligned and is the easiest way of spotting the paper thin scar.

Anyway the nerves for many years did not join and even to this day it feels a little numb. It also for many years used to feel like bumping your funny bone when I played guitar and the string ran along the scar.

So the fact that the person used the "pixie dust" on his finger got back normal sensation is very promising indeed.

The thought that maybe it could even trigger growth of spinal nerves is a very pleasant idea.

Kind Regards walker

[Sennacherib 0]

this is great for him.

Quote[/b] ]pig's bladder

not for the pig. when humans will stop to be egoist. The other species on Earth are not alive for the pleasure of the humans.

I hate this Christian mentality archaic and ridiculous.

there are a lot of criminals in jail; who could be use for experiences, in this way, one time in their life, they would be useful.

[Maddmatt 1]

this is great for him.

Quote[/b] ]pig's bladder

not for the pig. when humans will stop to be egoist. The other species on Earth are not alive for the pleasure of the humans.

I hate this Christian mentality archaic and ridiculous.

there are a lot of criminals in jail; who could be use for experiences, in this way, one time in their life, they would be useful.

So we must starve ourselves to let animals live instead?

Pigs will get killed for food regardless. So what is wrong with making good use of the remains that are not eaten?

But I do agree that they could make use of criminals for this stuff too. Think of all the money that would have been saved if criminals were used instead of crash test dummies

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

Amazing indeed, guess there was truth behind the statements made by the alien in the Stargate movie - our body seems to be easily repairable... Next step: "5th Element" regenerative chamber?

Quote[/b] ]Think of all the money that would have been saved if criminals were used instead of crash test dummies

[MehMan 0]

this is great for him.

Quote[/b] ]pig's bladder

not for the pig. when humans will stop to be egoist. The other species on Earth are not alive for the pleasure of the humans.

I hate this Christian mentality archaic and ridiculous.

there are a lot of criminals in jail; who could be use for experiences, in this way, one time in their life, they would be useful.

Where was it mentioned that the pig was killed? The pig could've died from a natural cause like old age.

[AWDrift 0]

this is great for him.

Quote[/b] ]pig's bladder

not for the pig. when humans will stop to be egoist. The other species on Earth are not alive for the pleasure of the humans.

I hate this Christian mentality archaic and ridiculous.

there are a lot of criminals in jail; who could be use for experiences, in this way, one time in their life, they would be useful.

How do you know the pig wasn't guilty of serious piggy crimes? He could've been the farmland equivelent of Jack the Ripper.

[h - 169]

Quote[/b] ]not for the pig. when humans will stop to be egoist. The other species on Earth are not alive for the pleasure of the humans.

I think you will find that the millions of people with diabetes might find this a wee bit dumb comment..

[Heatseeker 0]

Lets not go overboard.

Quote[/b] ]

"The researchers conducting the study say they don't expect to regrow the entire finger, but are hoping to regrow enough of a finger to allow for some utility. They don't believe it will regenerate bone, but nothing is for sure right now. That man in Cincinnati had only lost his finger tip, at the lower part of the nail; he hadn't lost the entire finger."

Its not the cure for cancer, damaged limbs, organs... but yes its very interesting .

[HotShot 0]

Maybe not quite as good as it seems

[walker 0]

Hi all

The Radio Article is correct about the need for proper scientifically trained and qualified journalist to comentate on this story.

However it obvious that the scientist commenting upon the BBC video has made the same errors he is complaining about, in that he is not looking into the case in depth. If you look at the ABC video there is at 36 seconds a shot showing that it was about 1/2 an inch of finger that was lost and included the nail bed. Also the other articles, the original BBC story and the ABC story confirm the increasing use of the material for other purposes some of which are new and radical, thereby deflating somewhat the commentators point about this being old news.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3799912n

That the finger story was first reported in other news services in 2005 but not noticed by other journalists until recently does not preclude those other journalists from posting a story about it. I for one had never seen it on BBC so the science comentator had not done his job in not making us aware of it and more importantly the whole concept of Regenerative Medicine that until the "pixie dust" report.

That it comes from virtually all cells is not disputed the question is how much and where to harvest it? Some sources are better than others. By implying as the science commentator has, that you can get it from anywhere is BAD science.

If you want blood you can get it from muscle tissue but I would suggest a vein is a better source. Ditto as some one pointed out you can get insulin and Factor 8 from animals or human sources. After the mass of cases with HIV and Hepatitis one can see why animal sources are often safer.

Maybe this science correspondent was annoyed he did not get asked about it and thus got payed. One should not assume because someone wears a white coat they have researched what they are saying.

Kind regards walker