New jaw bone grown in man's back

[JimmyTango Profile]

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[Murgatroyd]

Hmm.. imagine that, stem cells helping someone.

[SavageParrot Profile]

I especially liked the bit where he was complaing about not being able to eat steak fast enough. They grew you a new f**king jaw dude don't bitch about the details.

[Camel toe joe Profile WebsiteYIM]

I wonder how long before walmarts starts selling new body parts

[Keekanoo]

Growing a whole new body is no longer the domain of sci-fi it seems.

This is excellant news, though I found the bit about growing the human ear on the back of the mouse sad. Good friend of mine is a biologist and we have a moritorium on discussing what is done to the animals at the University labs. On the bright side he's designed mice that can live 3 to 5 times as long. Unfortunately, they spend their entire lives (he has racks of cages at home with experimental left-overs that were destined to be destroyed and which he doesn't have the heart to do so he sneaks them all home) spinning around in furious circles.

I write about this kind of stuff in my works. It's nice to see contemporary science catching up to pipe-dreams.