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How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by ourmandave »

selcuka wrote: post #24
progne wrote: post #5

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 trans…

> After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. But it would cost you an arm and a leg. At least initially.

Plus a costs of custom tailoring.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by nprateem »

cbg0 wrote: post #52
trinsic2 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OMG here we go with the marginalization term "Pseudoscience". Stereotyping things you don't understand doesn't make you a smart person.

Chi and chakras are very well understood to not be science, so "pseudoscience" is a very accurate description.

"Science" is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena."

Things investigated by science are not in themselves science. That doesn't make them pseudoscience.

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Post by ponderings »

WalterBright wrote: post #51
progne wrote: post #5

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 trans…

Start with something simple and wonderful like growing a new set of teeth.

Something simple like elongated heads

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Post by RajT88 »

WalterBright wrote: post #51
progne wrote: post #5

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 trans…

Start with something simple and wonderful like growing a new set of teeth.

Pair that with a caries vaccine and now we're talking.

Getting a new pair of chompers in middle age would be super great, especially if they won't decay the same way.

Re: How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs

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Post by RecycledEle »

keyle wrote: post #27
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro

This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.

Our brains can learn to handle new limbs - experiments with sensors that detect nerve impulses and control robotic arms have proven that.

Our brains can learn to handle new senses - experiments with sonar or infrared being sent to panels of pins that push on someone's arm have proven that.

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