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Some of our closest invertebrate cousins, like this Acorn worm, have the ability to perfectly regenerate any part of their body that's cut off - including the head and nervous system. Humans have most of the same genes, so scientists are trying to work out whether human regeneration is possible, too.
Regeneration – now that'd be a nice superpower to have. Injure an arm? Chop it off and wait for it to grow back. Dicky knee? Ingrown toenail? Lop off your leg and get two for one!
It sounds ridiculous, but there's a growing number of scientists that believe body part regeneration is not only possible, but achievable in humans. After all, not only are there plenty of animals that can do it, we can do it ourselves for our skin, nails, and bits of other organs.
Perhaps humans don't regrow body parts because, unlike worms, they have an idea 'how much that stings.'
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @03:44AM
“You see,” he began, “the whole problem was that the ambassador is very definitely not a female. That
threw me for a while, but I couldn't give it my full attention until I figured out what had caused its problem
in the first place. But there were so many hints I should have seen it even sooner: the fact that its tissue
kept growing, even when it wasn't cultured; the fact that we couldn't find any sexual apparatus; the fact
that there were no outlets for spores. So of course, what could it be but an entity that is capable of
reproduction by fission, and hence of regeneration? I should have guessed something like that the first
day, when only one of my scrapings drew any blood at all, and that coagulated in just two or three
seconds.”
“But can it grow a head?” asked Hammett. “After all, you've removed its brain and all its orifices. Even a
starfish has to have part of the core remaining to regenerate.”
“I think it will. If not, the body and head would probably have died immediately. Neither did, which is
why I destroyed the head: I didn't want that mindless pseudo-cranium growing another body. Also, if I
can coin a word, we occasionally tend to Earthomorphize, to give certain Earthly qualities to all forms of
non-Earthly life. It seems unlikely to me that any creature could survive with its head severed, but the fact
remains that it is indeed surviving. However, the really major problem still remains.”
“And what is that?” asked Hammett.
“The new brain won't know that it's an ambassador, or that we saved its life—so I think we'd better
prepare for a little war.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @05:17AM
Wtf?
(Score: 2) by rob_on_earth on Friday December 02 2016, @09:16AM
Just google i.....
crap! non of the phrases in that post produce even a hint at a real text.
Anyone got a source?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @09:42AM
I did JFGI
sigh.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday December 02 2016, @11:12AM
Google produced a link to the 2016 Democratic Primary Debate as he top hit.
Bing produced a link to Meryl Streep's Wikipedia page as the top hit.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @12:16PM
Google thinks this is about Tara Moss or a feminist book shop
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @07:47PM
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22The+new+brain+won%27t+know+that+it%27s+an+ambassador%22 [duckduckgo.com]
http://www.rulit.me/books/birthright-read-241876-31.html [rulit.me]
http://dado.msk.ru/rlib/utf8/378138.html [dado.msk.ru]
Birthright, by Mike Resnick, Chapter 9, The Medics
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @12:04AM
I 100% AC - someone upvote parent please, those are golden links