How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
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How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs
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#2There'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
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#3I 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.
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#4Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
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#5This 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.
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#6Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
Yeah, AFAIK Becker's "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" is pretty much all there was until Michael Levin came along and picked up the torch.
IMO it's one of those weird "holes": why so little interest in human tissue regeneration?
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#7Is 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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#8This 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 trans…
I imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to grow the right neurons to control it.
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#9This 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 trans…
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#10This 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 trans…
I imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to grow the right neurons to control it.
Plus extensive musculature at the new shoulder joint and reinforced bones for the new muscle attachments. I won't be first in line.