Text Ticker: Regrowing limbs
Is the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ lost limbs a brave new scientific adventure or a tragic dream that the wounds of war might be permanently erased?
The first phase of the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ limbs is complete; scientists managed to turn human skin into the equivalent of a blastema — a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new body parts. Now, researchers are on to phase two: turning that cellular glop into a square inch of honest-to-goodness muscle tissue.
Take a look at the grotesque picture. [go!]
