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It is closer than that. Arguable, we are regrowing lost bits and pieces already (skin graft, moving blood vessels around). >> World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth

• deadbabe 3y ago
  We should be regrowing cartilage.
  • patall 3y ago
    Like current this clinical study [1]? Or this pre-clinical [2]. The technology seems to exist (and there are people running marathons that were in need of a joint replacement before), only that the adoption is still in progress [1] https://biomedizin.unibas.ch/en/communication/details/university-of-basel-delivers-first-biological-implants-for-treatment-of-cartilage-lesions-and-osteoarthritis-in-humans/ https://biomedizin.unibas.ch/en/communication/details/univer... [2] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/08/Researchers-find-method-to-regrow-cartilage-in-the-joints.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/08/Researchers-f...
• orwin 3y ago
  This is exiting, really. Not everything about the world is great right now, but biology and medecine are fields that could really explode in the near future.