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Will We Ever Grow Replacement Hands?

Posted March 21, 2012 7:35 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

It might seem unbelievable, but researchers can grow organs in the laboratory. There are patients walking around with body parts which have been designed and built by doctors out of a patient's own cells.

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03/21/2012 8:52 AM

Wow that's pretty impressive....

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03/21/2012 11:08 AM

viagra just got interested........

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03/21/2012 9:44 PM

I think they should start working on growing replacement common sense!

If more people had that then there wouldn't be such a high demand for replacement body parts to begin with.

"Well doctor the blades on that industrial fan didn't look like they were that sharp or turning that fast so it didn't seem like it would be a problem to reach into them."
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03/21/2012 10:27 PM

I like this one, the blade guard just gets in the way....

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03/22/2012 12:22 AM

so at 80 i can get a full body transplant?

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03/22/2012 10:44 AM

Just before my father passed away, two weeks after his 80th birthday, his nurse asked if he needed anything and he said a new body. I wish he could have got one.
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