Monday, December 15, 2008

If I Chop My Arms Off, They'll Grow Back Right?

The answer is no, Captain Obvious. Go ahead and see for yourself, but I can guarantee you it's one helluva lovely dismemberment experience :)

It's common knowledge that losing any part of our limbs will result in turning oneself into a permanent amputee, and luckily nowadays we have artificial limbs to help replace the ones we've lost. But what if we can grow our body parts back? Like this newt below:



Well from the video the amphibian has uber cool regeneration ability to grow back lost limbs, like the G-Cells daikaiju fans can see in Godzilla (hence explaining his high survivability rate per movie). Mammals had it too, and white mice have shown that ability in labs. And when mammals was mentioned that includes humans. We USED to be able to regenerate limbs but we lost that ability a few million years back now that we have immune system that suppresses any regeneration. Well I'm not studying in this field to be credible enough to give liable infos, so go check this out for further readings. Who knows one day we might just need a hand.

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