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No, the end of your finger just can grow back. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/190385484/chopped-how-amputated-fingertips-sometimes-grow-ba
by lazyasciiart 4mo ago
No, the end of your finger just can grow back. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/190385484/chopped-how-amputated-fingertips-sometimes-grow-back https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854...
Dude's brother had him throw his product on the finger as it did so, definitely an astute marketing trick.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/01/finger.claim https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/01/finger.claim
- ranger_danger 4mo ago"I don't know how it works, so it must be fake news." To be fair, the person being skeptical is just a surgeon, this is not a peer-reviewed study or anything actually scientific. Your NPR link even shows that scientists realize there are still unknowns: > "We think that nail stem cells may a have a special function to induce the whole regeneration process, including nerve attraction and growth of the bone," Ito say. A cursory search seems to say that typical regrowth of a nail takes 4-6 months, but Spievak claimed his only took 4 weeks. Can we say definitively that his "pixie dust" had nothing to do with it? I don't think so. Can we say it did have something to do with it? Also unknown... but the answer right now IMO certainly isn't a scientific "no."
- lazyasciiart 4mo agoIf it worked on humans 13 years ago, then by now it would have worked on a human who was not sibling to the inventor, in a way not essentially identical to life without it.
- RajT88 4mo agoI recall reading a similar story with powdered lizard. Also just a fingertip.