Building and rebuilding bodies sound straight out of fiction , like Mary Shelley ’s novel Frankenstein or American action at law flick Robocop - but it ’s a very serious pedigree of medicine being explore at the University of Pittsburgh , Pennysylvania .
“ We can grow the whole human in nine month , ” say Dr Stephen Badylak from the university , in the video below from Science Channel . “ All we really need to do is figure out how to acquire a part of that human . ”
And it ’s the menial pig that scientists turn to for regenerative material . The estimation behind using bull for reforming limbs and harmonium in citizenry comes from that pigs ' gist valves have been used for year in humans with a minimum chance of their body winnow out the strange matter .
Pigs ’ bladders are a permissive waste material when copper are slaughtered , so it ’s cheap and easy available . scrap away layers of tissue disclose the extracellular matrix , which is like a scaffold in all animals , including humankind .
“ The extracellular matrix is the gum that holds cells together in every tissue paper and organ of your body , ” explain Badylak . “ And it gives operating instructions to the cells , and the cells , in turn , give instructions to the matrix . ”
The tissue paper is then cleaned and dried , to be formed into strip show or priming into powder , which can then be used as medicinal powder for an injured soul .
“ or else of the body thinking ‘ Injury ? Alright , permit ’s form a scar , ’ the body says ‘ Alright , hurt ? Let ’s rebuild ’ , " explicate Badylak . “ And the intercellular substance serve to jumpstart it in the ‘ get ’s reconstruct ’ nerve tract . ”
If you think this wonder medicine is absolute hokum , it ’s already been put to use on human race .
One of the Lee ’s finger was severed by a model airplane in 2005 . He was sent a ampule of the powdered cloth , which he sprinkled onto the nub of his missing fingerbreadth . He was surprised when his missing finger completely regrew with no defect or stain and with a whole fingernail attached .
Check out the video below fromScience Channelabout the miracle marvel of the pig ’s bladder .
[ H / T : Science Channel ]
