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- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Great, now people will just cut things off to see if they grow back bigger.
- jshapiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30We should congratulate DARPA for their initiative...Give them a hand!
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Oh dear god...
Oh.
Dear.
God.
Please lord, no. - mbrane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you're not insured, will this treatment cost an arm and a leg?
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ImTheDarkcyde
Yes it's dug down because it's not insightful...
"Interesting article" means nothing... It's like you describing someone or something as being "nice"...
Anyways can you image if everyone of digg submitted a comment like that?! Imagine a thread of comments with nothing but "Interesting article"... "Pile of Garbage"... - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10That's what I'm saying. How the hell am I supposed to get away with slapping the waitress' ass if I don't have this nub of an arm anymore?!
- whatthehell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Was the subtlety lost on you with the OP's comment?
- shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Looking for headline "Wife cuts off husband's penis, everything's OK."
- SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Both ;-)
and yes i missed the subtlety, stupid me... - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5On a similar note... I've always thought they should research a way for people's bodies to grow a third or even fourth set of teeth that would replace your current set, like when you lost your baby teeth.
Dentists wouldn't be happy about it though. - DruSam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My left leg is amputated at the hip. So this is AWESOME news, because the prosthetics for hip amputees suck majorly right now. It's too bad we had to have troop casualties before this stuff got any research money.
- CaptainEO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So if you get decapitated, would your body grow a new head, or would your head grow a new body?
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"now this person HAS commented, he says how he feels about the article, and its positive feedback for both the submitter and the articles writer. so WHY digg him down? because his comment wasn't funny? because he didn't mention anything insightful?"
Because he has literally said *nothing*. People that talk just to hear themselves talk are annoying. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9ok, this is something thats been irking me lately. digg isn't one big joke, the comments do not have to be punchlines. right above this box i am typing it says 'add your comment'
now this person HAS commented, he says how he feels about the article, and its positive feedback for both the submitter and the articles writer. so WHY digg him down? because his comment wasn't funny? because he didn't mention anything insightful? - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@ SundayTrain
I'm sorry. How bad is it? Do the girls tell you size doesn't matter or do they just laugh? - zeblith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Gee, what a few STEM CELLS could cure.
- Broccoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can see this going terribly wrong, the insult ***** may no longer be a figure of speech.
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I seem to remember someone researching this before... what was his name... oh, right, Dr. Conners! Better known, perhaps, as THE LIZARD.
- Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Darkcyde
Eh, it's spelled "Qur'an" - DarkXanthos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Aside from all that.... If you want to let us know it's worth reading there's something called a.... DIGG!
Thank you. - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Casedot
You know, in the time it takes you to read the comments pertaining to people's opinions, you could've read the article and decided for yourself...
And while it is a good point that people should be able to simply say a simple opinion, what does being dugg down really matter?... I mean obviously from your comment it was dugg down when you posted your reply, so all of us are reading these dugg down comments anyway... In that case, why does it matter? - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 Not to be confused with quorn.
- Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3*groans@digg with the pain of a thousand bad jokes*
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No way. We have to protect those cells that are going to be thrown in the garbage after they've been aborted.
- Casedot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I like when people say "interesting article" because that lets me know it might be worth reading. When people say "It was a pile of garbage" i know not to read it.
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6hmmmm..... maybe because the soldiers are starting to be seen as occupiers instead of liberators?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5the koran costs about 5 bucks on amazon.com
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You realize the Koran never instructs anyone to kill those who don't share their beliefs, right?... It's their interpretations are to blame, not the book. I mean I could very well intereperate the book of Revoluations to be instructing me to genetically alter a lamb to have 9 heads then kill all the wrong-doers to earn "God's love" rather easily....
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@SundayTrain
If the idea still seems appealing to you, reconsider the first part of that process.... - cliffy2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Fordi: Koran is an acceptable spelling variant. Transliterations are often diverse.
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2scrabble
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2True, we shouldn't need a war to prompt us to do this research. There is more than enough evidence on Youtube that this is needed.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, darkclyde, you can get them for free! I got one for free just a couple of weeks ago.
The first page says that it's a requirement to read this book with clean hands. - hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, MIB was my second thought, to be honest. My first thought was an image of arms and legs growing out of an oversized bread-maker like appliance sitting on my kitchen counter.
- Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Theres a treatment out there somewhere that promotes tooth growth with ultrasound. If I remember correctly, it can promote regeneration of an entire tooth. Not quite as good as sharks have it, but still.
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Ansible
Find a link and submit it?... I'd digg that! >.> - kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, I'm not so sure about that. As one who is about to have all four of my wisdom teeth removed I know the oral surgeon is getting paid hansomely. And if this happened four times in a persons life they'd be gibbering with joy.
Why do I say this? Because it's $350 a tooth - and all total the surgeon will do 45 minutes of work.
Now I understand why dentists have such a high suicide rate. - Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Tiak:
http://www.digg.com/health/Smile!_A_new_Canadian_tool_can_re-grow_teeth - Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is it we need a war to prompt us to research this stuff? Isn't the importance of limb regeneration enough by itself? Plus 7.5 million bucks isn't really that much money. 15 or 20 salaries for a couple of years, that's it. Anyway, hope they get it going! I, for one, could use some new knee and hip parts.
- DanaG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to recommend the book "The Body Electric" by Becker and Selden. It tells of Becker's decades of research into electricity and regeneration over 20 years ago. Many times over the past few years when I've read about the latest advances in stem cell research, I'd think, "Oh yeah, I read about that in The Body Electric 20 years ago." Dated, but still an interesting read.
For example, the reason a Salamander can regenerate a tail or a limb is because Salamander's (and lower reptile's) blood cells still contain their DNA. So, at the site of the injury, a Salamander's blood cells can de-differentiate and then re-differentiate into bone, muscle, nerves, skin, etc. Amazing.
The fundamental reason mammals can't regenerate their limbs is because mammalian blood cells lose their DNA (I assume to make more room for hemoglobin). But immature blood cells in bone marrow still contain their DNA, so it's within the realm of possibility to use them to regenerate tissue and limbs in humans. Obviously it's a lot more difficult than that, but that's basically it.
From the Wired article, I'm very curious what trick those MRL strain of mice use to regenerate their tissue. - miner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can't we already grow our own limbs?
- cesarandreu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Am I the only one who thinks about SpiderMan and the lizzard dude?
- hookermom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I grow a grappling hook for a head and tadpoles on the grappling hook.
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Glad you mentioned the head issue. My first thought when I read the headline was of Men In Black.
- Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Neither. I'm fairly sure that the growth would have to be stimulated by neural activity, but I'm also fairly certain that your brain needs bloodflow to maintain enough neural activity to stimulate growth.
Now, if you were a head in a life-support jar... - Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Erm... Stem cells are good for regenerating tissue that's been lost... NOT for regrowing entire organs/structure. You can't make a new arm out of stem cells any more than you can make a new liver or Shakey's Pizza from scratch.....
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No one listen to Wasyu. He's obviously Borg.
- GAMAGO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not to be picky, and I know it's from TFA - but it's not mere hundreds of soldiers coming back missing arms and legs - it's THOUSANDS.
How many, exactly? Well, surprise! It's kinda hard to find out that exact information.
However, it's commonly reported that about 7000 troops have had injuries so serious that they are removed from duty.
It's also been reported that about 6% of injured troops have required amputations.
There have been about 20,000 US injured troops JUST in Iraq so far. So, figure about 1,200 US amputations from that conflict alone.
Some numbers:
www (dot) icasualties (dot) org
Call me a peacenik, but sloppy reporting is part of what got us in this mess in the first place. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1seems like it would cause cancer
- drjborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds awful to say, but a lot of good medical technology has come from the carnage of the battlefield. Even if this doesn't pan out fully, I hope some good can come of it.
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