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The man who grew a finger (bbc.co.uk)
5 points by epi0Bauqu on April 30, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This extracellular matrix stuff is quite exciting. They've actually managed to reconstitute entire organs (but are of course still a long way from doing it reliably for humans):

http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/Researchers_crea...


There was noise about trials of regrowing fingers on amputees using extracellular. I have yet to hear anything, which makes me think it may not have gone well.




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