MEDIC: Regrow limbs with pixie dust?

Johnathan Rush 1 May, 2008 at 10:32am ET Article published in Tech

Comments

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   1 May 2008 ~ 10:57am primesuspect That's pretty incredible.
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   1 May 2008 ~ 11:25am QCH WOW... I hope it's as good as that article claims!!!
3. 
   1 May 2008 ~ 11:33am Winfrey More like "Wolverine" dust. Holy crap an example of regeneration!
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   1 May 2008 ~ 11:37am GHoosdum I will never see Peter Pan the same way again.
   
   Yeah, that's ground up pig bladder that Tinkerbell is sprinkling all over you. Now fly!
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   1 May 2008 ~ 2:11pm Zanthian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/01/finger.claim
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   1 May 2008 ~ 2:42pm TiberiusLazarus

   Zanthian wrote:

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/01/finger.claim

   "But we are very uninformed about how all of this works. There's a lot more that we don't know than we do know."
   
   
   Kay said there was "no evidence" that ACell had manipulated the regenerative capabilities of the human body.
   
   
   "There's no clinical evidence to support the claims," he said. "It really is junk science.

   
   Does every new possible scientific breakthrough have to start in a laboratory with decades of clinical research behind it? If we know so little about the human body than how do we know that this isn't possible?
   
   The whole thing does seem rather remarkable and hard to believe, but sometimes the possible benefits of continuing with a new idea vastly out weigh the the negatives.
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   4 May 2008 ~ 12:32am airbornflght Well, that's exactly what science is. Testing, analysis, more testing, testing testing, testing. Until enough evidence can be compiled to reach a conclusion to either prove yourself wrong or else to decide that one's hypothesis may be correct.
   
   It's great that it works (if it does, I'm skeptical), but what would be better is how and why it works. Without that it is nothing more than snake oil. "Sprinkle this on it, all your problems will melt away."
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   4 May 2008 ~ 4:38am shwaip MAN DOWN
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   9 May 2008 ~ 3:35pm Linc OOPS, zat wuz not medicine.