[HN Gopher] How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
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How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
Author : KenRuf
Score : 31 points
Date : 2023-10-26 16:07 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| farkanoid wrote:
| There's a fascinating (in my opinion) TED talk about this
| featuring the same Biologist, with examples of regenerative
| experiments performed using Flatworms:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c
| daoboy wrote:
| I have seen several podcasts with Michael Levin now and it is
| really brilliant work he and his team are doing.
|
| For what it's worth he also comes across as a really nice guy.
| hosh wrote:
| Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
| carapace wrote:
| [delayed]
| progne wrote:
| This technology doesn't seem to be limited to existing limbs and
| organs. After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm.
| A man could grow a uterus since he has the X chromosomes and with
| a transplant that includes Y chromosomes, a woman could grow
| testes. Parthenogenesis could become a choice. Another head seems
| possible. The limits are more likely to come from regulation than
| a reluctance of people to transform themselves.
| goda90 wrote:
| I imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to
| grow the right neurons to control it.
| generalizations wrote:
| Is this related to any new research? I've been interested in this
| stuff for a while, but this just looks like a rehashing of
| previous work.
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