Man Grows Finger Back... USING 'PIXIE DUST'?!

[1)ark_NiTe]

The article is quite unbelievable. You can read it here first before you reply.

"Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.

'Pixie dust'

How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story."


It was hard for me to believe until I saw the video at the top of the article and that the U.S. military is interested in using it. To me it seems like something that is way beyond the realm of this world (the fact that it regrows nerves, tissue, etc.) but who knows, it could just be a modern medical miracle. Either way it is truly amazing.

More sources for you skeptics:

CBS News

Suite 101

 

[TheSecretArts]

hahahaha... bs!

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

It's really not BS, it's a report by the BBC (credible source) and it's currently being researched by the University of Pittsburgh. Don't say it's BS before you even read the article.

 

[PurplePoot]

From what I heard, all the powder does is prevent scabs from forming, and apparently with the scab growing function of your body turned off, it initiates the regeneration function which generally has low enough precedence that it is never activated.

Unconfirmed though, but yeah, cool stuff.

EDIT: Confirmed from the BBC article's content.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Finally a solution to reverse castrations D:

 

[LiOneSS]

OMG COOL :O never heard that a human can regrow somthing

 

[SantaBla]

Who said God hates amputees D:?

 

[Japut3h]

This is just too weird

 

[TheDivineBoss]

So awesome aint it. I could not see how someone wont not think that his is awesome.

hahahaha... bs!

...

Let's hang him.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

yeh it uses a material found from inside pigs bladders called "somthing" matrix, i forget what, but this stuff basically tells the cells to regenerate as if they were stem cells.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Yep, it sure does. The only thing I don't think that it regenerates is bone, but they think within the next 10 years they'll have that figured out as well. Next they just have to create magic wands and we'll all be able to go to Hogwarts !

 

[TheDivineBoss]

I've readt somewhere that the only regenerating organ in your body is the livver.

 

[Elenai]

If this works...it will be a medical miracle!

 

[GST_Nemisis]

it does work, you can actually see the before and after pictures of it.

 

[Elenai]

Now all we have to deal with is a total monopolization of the substance and watch as it totally becomes unusable to the poor, the needy, the amputated, and those without limbs.

And it probably causes cancer like everything else on the face of the earth, and including everything orbiting it/us orbiting.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Now all we have to deal with is a total monopolization of the substance and watch as it totally becomes unusable to the poor, the needy, the amputated, and those without limbs.

And it probably causes cancer like everything else on the face of the earth, and including everything orbiting it/us orbiting.

I doubt that will happen unless Big-Pharm gets word of it and then tries in every way possible to make it inaccessible to most or all people so they can continue to sell their drugs to people and make them think they need them.

 

[Hakeem]

So I could cut off my finger, regrow it, and have two copies of my finger?

/me begins plotting the worst Halloween you'll ever see...

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

LOL, that's pretty funny Hakeem. Instead of using fake fingers to gross people out there could be a market for REAL fingers!

This is a cannibals dream if you think about it. They could eat themselves and then grow themselves back

 

[Instant Ramen]

Could be used for Wendy's chili. Finger lickin' good!

 

[Herman]

You guys are fucked up

No seriously, this sounds like total BS to me

Something that can make regular cells act like stem cells, I caught wind of a rumor of that, but I was unsure

Holy sh*t they got it coded to regrow a fucking finger?!!?!?

I mean, shit we are flying around in massive jet planes, and cloning animals
So I s'pose we have the capability...

But I will say that is complete BS until I cut my own finger off and grow a new one (which I probably won't ever do, consciously, so I'd drug a friend )

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

What... the... hell...

Why isn't this making front page? This is amazing!

If it's true...

 

[Pitakebab]

So I can cut off my penis and grow it back?

 

[Hakeem]

Only one way to find out.

GLHF

 

[Razorbrain]

there is only one face expression for this article

:O

 

[PurplePoot]

This is a cannibals dream if you think about it. They could eat themselves and then grow themselves back

Except it would take more energy to regrow themselves than would be earned from the food...

Only one way to find out.

GLHF

I endorse this statement.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Who said God hates amputees D:?

All the God-loving fellows that didn't get just the fingertips chopped off, and have pixie dust available to regenerate their limbs, perhaps?

 

[Devine]

wow this is realy of-topic
but its pretty amazing i gonna try it ....

EDIT: awww man i can move my finger YES !!! thanks sciens

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

So it doesn't grow back bones?

Why is he saying he has "full mobility" then?


EDIT: Ok, forget about this. This is total BS. Humans don't grow back fingers, and if this was real than it would make front page and every single medical scientist on this planet would start giving a shit. So far I haven't seen much response from them.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

EDIT: Ok, forget about this. This is total BS.

It did when it was first news back in 2006.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

this is not bs, this really happened, infact right now there are about 3 accountable examples of limb regeneration, its just that this is the first time i have heard it done on a human thats not under lab conditions.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

You know, I bet they wont even shall use it in civilian environments, the Americans will use it only for their president if it cuts his finger while the rest of the world suffers with a blown leg off. Claiming to cost billions of dollars because it needs special materials. Bah, it are probally normal household ingredients. And off course, when they find a solution, they always need a cause: Bioweaponry. Launch the SCUDs!

 

[Herman]

Uhhh, I don't know if you were kidding or not, but all the charity foundations here donated like billions of dollars to africa in the past 20 years...

And at that, we might not even have a male president when this gets big (although I seriously doubt it)

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

Yeah Divine, think before you talk. The United States helps more with foreign aid than ANY other country in the world and many, many countries combined. What more do you want us to do, cure global poverty?

 

[brad.dude03]

It's really not BS, it's a report by the BBC (credible source) and it's currently being researched by the University of Pittsburgh. Don't say it's BS before you even read the article.

Just like the BBC reported on that Hitler Doll story, which turned out to be a hoax. Never take news at face value, 90% of the time it's so rushed out the door that factual inaccuracies and misinformation are abound.

 

[Bloody_Turds]

Im pretty sure this is hoax wifout reading the article, because fingerprints cant grow back even if the finger somehow did. Fingerprints are formed in the womb by the folding of the finger skin, and arnt part of your DNA. Just what i heard somewhere on fingerprints.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I have no idea where you're getting your information from Bloody, but you're wrong. Fingerprints are ridges that have evolved in our fingers and toes to help us with gripping objects (hands) or keeping traction (feet).

 

[Herman]

Yeah I don't know much about fingerprints, all I know is that DNA is the code for all life, we finished the Human Genome Project somewhat recently (don't recall the latest date) or a bit of a long time ago in terms of technology (like 5-10 years or something) and I haven't heard of any tremendous DNA breakthroughs in a while

I really wouldn't be baffled if this was true, just amazed at how far we have gotten

 

[Hakeem]

What more do you want us to do, cure global poverty?

Please and thank you.


I believe this story. I don't see what's so hard to believe, animals regenerate all the time. You can cut a starfish into many pieces, and every piece will grow into a full starfish.

I think it's cool that after all these years, the body still knows how to make itself if it needs to.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

What more do you want us to do, cure global poverty?

LOL i took a quick glance at this and didnt read it properly and i though u wrote:

"What more do you want us to do, cure global puberty?"

Coz teenagers are the plight of the world!!!

and then i read again and i was just loling hard.

 

[PurplePoot]

Just like the BBC reported on that Hitler Doll story, which turned out to be a hoax. Never take news at face value, 90% of the time it's so rushed out the door that factual inaccuracies and misinformation are abound.

While I agree that often news is produced too fast to check its facts, I doubt that they would outright lie, and I don't see how in this case they could come to this conclusion any other way, unless it was true or they were lying.

 

[TheSecretArts]

If this works...it will be a medical miracle!

not a miracle, a phenomenon...

 

[The Dark Wizard]

This is amazing.

 

[ArcticInferno]

This is madness!!

 

[brad.dude03]

Madness?! THIS IS A 300 SPOOF, IT'S ALWAYS MADNESS!

 

[Teh_Ephy]

About finger-prints: A person's finger prints are completely independent of that person's DNA. Identical twins have different finger prints. Finger prints are not necessarily folds in the skin, but ridges. If the man truly grew his finger back, it is extremely unlikely that he would have the same finger print, although it's probable that he would have one.

About regeneration: Most animals have the latent ability to completely regenerate limbs, although the ability is minimized in mammals. A substance that is able to capitalize on that latent regenerative ability is not outside the realm of possibility.

TDB: Don't be a useless anti-US fuck. The ingredients are far from household, and must be prepared exclusively in a laboratory, though it would hardly cost billions of dollars for enough for one person. Also, just because US politicians tend not to represent the US populace, no matter how badly the populace tries to elect politicians that do, doesn't mean that anyone except for you is that utterly stupid. Really, calling you retarded is insulting to the intelligence of special ed kids. If such a situation ever did arise, the US legal system allows for politicians to be replaced fairly quickly, especially for outrages like that, and politicians tend to not want to be replaced.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

I don't know whether if I could in this forum I'd neg or pos rep you, Teh_Ephy. You made a ton of great points that I fully agree with but you also might have just started a flame war with TDB by calling him a "useless anti-US fuck". So I suppose it's good that we can't rep here because mine would cancel themselves out anyway

 

[Samuraid]

Just for the record: This topic is very interesting, but political discussion really has very little to do with the original topic. If this continues, then I will close the topic. Thank you.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

you also might have just started a flame war with TDB by calling him a "useless anti-US fuck". So I suppose it's good that we can't rep here because mine would cancel themselves out anyway

This is not the first instance of TDB being a useless anti-US fuck, this is the first instance of TDB being a useless anti-US fuck that got me fed up enough to flame him. I would take whatever neg rep it would take to get him to stop spouting that incredibly ignorant and biased idiocy. My apologies, Samuraid.

Anyways, the title of the thread (as well as the BBC article) are slightly misleading. I saw "Pixie dust" and immediately thought "bullshit, hoax." I read the article, and saw "extracellular matrix" and thought "so why the hell did they call it 'pixie dust?'" I've read about extracellular matrix, in an article in Discover Magazine about growing a girl a whole new urinary bladder, as well as the difficulties that it presented.

 

[1)ark_NiTe]

It's titled that so they will get people's attention of course, and they can justify the title because the man said it was "his pixie dust". I agree though, at first I thought it would be a hoax until I read into the specifics. It's extremely real and extremely awesome.

 

[Lost_Solider]

Well to be truthful almost all stories these days are named to get peoples attention.