<![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Guys, guys, guys. NOTHING has been debunked. They HAVE regrown the bone past the last joint on the finger tip, including fingernails. They developed this stuff at least 3 years ago. One of the doctors who came up with the matrix had a brother who lost a fingertip to a table saw, and his brother's fingertip grew it back, but at the time I read that article, it had not been cleared by the FDA for human use. I guess we're using it to regrow hooves or something...

This has been covered on MSNBC a couple of years ago, and the folks at Boing Boing did a story on it a month ago.

I hope the cost of it comes down in price soon, because I lopped off the last half to three quarter inch of my... (wait for it...) left middle finger 32 years ago on a wicked diagonal, and they did a graft to pull the wreckage back into a half assed finger tip. I have had a really crummy nail for all those years, in spite of the Doc at Mass General saying I would never have a nail. My problem is that to use this stuff, someone would have to remove a lot of tissue that is very close to that last joint of my finger. I think it would likely hurt A LOT until the powder kicks in, and I start growing the new tip.

SteverMan

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Sadly, his fingers smell like pork rinds now.

ackthbbft

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @catcubed: That's why it's on io9, it looks like science but is actually fiction.

Sihanouk-s-Poodle

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Bloodboiler:
I went ahead and watched the BBC video...

LAME...

He shaved off the tip of his finger...
It looks like he even missed the nail (but it is a little hard to see due to the top down view..)

I don't even know why he says the thing about the fingernail... He didn't cut off his finger below the nail matrix..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Does the pig's bladder work if your Jewish?

hellers1155

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> I have 1/2 a dozen friends who've regrown fingertips without powdered pigs bladders (yes, I have lots of crazy, clumsy friends), so I'd say this product may assist in healing but isn't what triggers the regrowth.

Freddie Freelance

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Mathmos: i actually lost the tip of my finger in a patio door when I was 8 and it regrew itself and it's actually longer than the same finger on my other hand.

jp182

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Wow!

radio1

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> So, does it grow back other things, like arms or heads? Does it have to be put on the stump, or could you just cut your thumb and put this powder on it and grow another penis...I mean thumb?

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Well, it's certainly being publicized. I saw it on our main News on TV yesterday several times during the day. It was also in the newspaper here.

da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Bloodboiler: exactly. this is old, and already totally discredited.

muteboy

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Wasn't this debuged already. He didn't lose any bone or fingernail, just some flesh from the tip of the finger. That would have healed just the same without some miracle powder.

Bloodboiler

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Frakkin' freakshow. Why can't we put all that freak money into suspended animation and cryogenics research like we oughta?

monkity

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Imagine a small cast built around the finger just loaded with condensed powdered pig bladder... it would regrow in a week, maybe

Scorpi

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Ben Goldacre of the Bad Science blog debunked this story: [www.badscience.net]

catcubed

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @bdavis007: I was pretty skeptical about this when I found the article yesterday but I dug up quite a few other sources that correlated, so I think it's legit.

Mister Adequate

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> John Wayne Bobbitt lives!

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> i showed this post (the first go around) to my fiancee who's a surgical nurse. she said they use this kind of stuff frequently, but it's hard to come by and very expensive. usually it's reserved only for those with severe burns and such because losing a finger isn't life threatening. that being said, I'm sure if you want to pay for it you can get what ever you want (since our health care isn't socialized but that's a different topic) but they won't grow bone, only flesh.

fatecreatr

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> > Lee Spievak regrew his fingers from
> powdered big bladders.

Sad. Me, I only have little bladders.

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> What are we going to do for the Kosher that walk amongst us? We can't get it in Lamb, beef or chicken?

Final

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Miranda Kali:
The article mentions that everything was regrown, nerves, fingerprint, everything.

@bdavis007:
Um, what? Did you watch that video on BBC? The dude's finger tip was gone. There's no way it would have grown back, especially in a man that old. You only get ten fingers; when one's gone, that's it. Unless of course you happen to be this dude, but under normal circumstances his finger would not have regrown as much as it did.



sugardeath

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> What an absolute load of CRAP!

I mean in terms of magic powder from the violated body of a pig. And of course they're going to Argentina (home of the cure for high cholesterol via peas and Italian dressing)for clinical trials instead of a research institute in the UK or France.

I saw the before and after pics from the source material - nothing happened here that wouldn't happen for anyone in similar circumstances. I imagine the packaging for their magic dust is being designed even now.

I wish some of the posters here would put a little more intelligent healthy skepticism into play before putting garbage like this up...

bdavis007

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Miranda Kali: Bishop wasn't drinking, but seriously, what kind of effect would that have had on him anyway.

My dad almost cut my middle finger off when I was two, because he was supposed to be watching me while he was building dog house or something, and I must have though grabbing the wood he was cutting was a good idea.

Long story short, not a good idea, dad slept in the basement for a week, and I have a kick ass scar!

@russdanger: for the soul?

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Man if this works so well why do we kill pigs.. just keep cutting off parts and let them regrow...

Infinite bacon....

Infinite, unethical bacon..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Mathmos: Left middle finger got a 1/8" wide (the width of a saw blade) chunk taken out.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Belabras: I would also suggest Novacaine. A lot of Novacaine...

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> oesophagus..

Wasn't he Big Bird's friend on Sesame Street?

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> So, say I'm 75, and I want a 'certain part of the male anatomy' to be young and vigorous. All I have to is get the garden shears?

Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Vegans will have to wait until tofu-bladders can be grown in the lab.
...Sorry, Stumpie....

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Miranda Kali: oddly enough, I'm also missing the tip of my left index finger. I cut it off as a child climbing on metal shelving with sharp edges. My parents rushed me to a hospital, where they re-attached the tip, which subsequently died.

But apparently you can regenerate the end of a finger particularly easily. Children up to 10 or so can regenerate them unaided so long as the wound isn't sealer with flaps of skin.

Mathmos

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @moff: Usually only happens at a circus. Of course, the knife throwers may not be drinking, but the lovely assistant probably has one before they strap her to the spinning wheel of potential impalement.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Miranda Kali: Although weirdly, I can't recall seeing anyone do knife tricks who wasn't drinking.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> @Castle1914: "Cut! It! Off!"

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> I practically cut the tip of my left index finger off, and can barely feel anything with it. (remember kids, booze and knife tricks don't mix)
I wonder if the nerves were also repaired.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> I can see a whole new world of America's funniest home amputations opening up.

Castle1914

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> So when I turn 60, can I rub the stuff all over my body and turn young again?

Or do i have to cut off nearly every body part and regrow from scratch?

And with that thought, if I cut off an arm and rub he stuff on the appendage, will I grow another me eventually?

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> That is FUCKIN' AWESOME. Hang on while I cut my fingers off.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Regrowing Fingers Using Pig Bladders]]> Now if we could just get some powdered weasel spleen to produce some moisturizer...

Miranda Kali

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