Scientists have grown the entire forelimb of a rat in a lab . . . and it moves!
Hidden in plain sight
God’s miraculous secrets*
Waiting to be found
Bernhard Jank, MD/Ott Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Harold Ott, head of the Ott Laboratory for Organ Engineering and Regeneration, and his team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston were able to “engineer rat forelimbs with functioning vascular and muscle tissue,” . . .
“This may be an important first step leading to the eventual creation of functional, bioartificial limbs that could be used in transplants.”
Ott says this work “finally proved that we can regenerate functional muscle.” (They know because they ran an electrical current through the muscle tissue — and the little rat limb began to twitch).”
“They’ve since applied the first part of this technology — stripping cells from the framework — to the arms of primates, showing the process might work on the human scale.”
Read the article: In Massachusetts Lab Scientists Grow an Artificial Rat Limb
CURIOUS to the MAX 
so true 🙂
do make time to read mine here: http://drishti.co/2015/06/17/secret/
Cheers, Archana 🙂
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Ohh, this is Excellent!!
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Will the creature of Dr. Frankenstein be real then? That’s a thought and quite creepy… 🙂
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Ompong,
Creepy is a good word for it now . . . 50 years from now it probably will be state-of-art!
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Yes indeed. The Six Million Dollar Man or bionics is the future.
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Paging Dr. Frankenstein!
Let me know when they can replace my aching back, and arthritic joints.
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Rick,
Yes, they will be able to replace your aching back and arthritic joints but unfortunately you will probably not live long enough to experience it.
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Good poem.
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Star fish arms, lizard tails, and human liver regeneration – it’s possible.
Now draw a picture of that!
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Shari B-P,
I think I’ll start the drawings with human liver regeneration since no one knows exactly what that looks like.
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Easy! Chopped, on toast!
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Shari B-P,
I believe the proper culinary term is Chipped Beef on Toast. Some like it chopped, some like it creamed.
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