This is very good, but not unique, except perhaps in the speed of the regrowth. Having severed fingertips regrow is standard procedure now. To quote Scientific American for April 2008, page 41: "Fostering regeneration in a fingertip amputation injury is apparently as simple as cleaning the wound and covering it with a simple dressing. If allowed to heal naturally, the fingertip restores its contour, fingerprint and sensation and undergoes a varying degree of lengthening. The success of this conservative treatment of fingertip amputation injuries has been documented in medical journals thousands of times."
But this was definitely not common practice when I grew up. So in that regard we are indeed living in the future.
I got a new tattoo recently, and while trying desperately not to scratch at it as it healed I realized how incredibly maddeningly itchy it would probably be to regenerate a body part.
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Date: 2008-05-01 02:42 pm (UTC)(I will happily give up my personal jet-pack for such niftiness.)
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Date: 2008-05-01 03:28 pm (UTC)But this was definitely not common practice when I grew up. So in that regard we are indeed living in the future.
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Date: 2008-05-01 08:46 pm (UTC)