NPR: Linkfest: Re-Growing Organs

Linkfest: Re-Growing Organs

Three years ago, Lee Spievack sliced off the tip of his finger in the propeller of a hobby shop airplane.

What happened next, CBS correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports, launched him into the future of medicine. Spievack's brother, Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound.

"I powdered it on until it was covered," Spievack recalled. To his astonishment, his finger grew back.

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Re-growing organs/ Two-way GPS/ World's tallest man gets bike

Will Hoffman

8:18 AM ET | 03-25-2008 | permalink

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Matrices is the plural of Matrix :)
It is believed that the pig bladder has the same signaling as a growing fetus- i.e. same hormones and/or proteins triggering the cellular response of regeneration.

Sent by Anna | 12:08 PM ET | 03-25-2008

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