Regrow fingertips - with bone and nail - using nothing more than a collagen powder derived from pig bladders? I saw this about a month ago, and I'm still not sure I believe it.
(Regrow limbs with pig bladder collagen video)
If this can be confirmed, it will indeed be a breakthrough - and if it can work on larger structures, like hands, or feet, or even limbs - it will be amazing.
Via Daily Mail; thanks to Moira and Adi for writing in.
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'The leg was to function, in a way, as a servo-mechanism operated by Larry’s brain, through the mediation of the electronic brain in the leg.' - Charles Recour, 1949.
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