<div dir="ltr">My understanding is that due to the many troops who lost limbs during the past several decades of American military adventurism, Darpa is investing a great deal of time and money into trying to figure out how to make human bodies regenerate. I wish them luck! <div><br></div><div>John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here's one that really fascinates me. There are creatures who can regrow limbs, tails, or even heads. (I don't know if I would like that last option to be available to people, but I can think of many people who need it desperately. Just wipe the slate clean and start again.) Of course I have no idea how much money is spent on this research, but whatever it is it could be more. Then I see no reason why it could not be applied to regrowing internal organs in situ - liver, heart, kidneys, whatever. Big brain tumor: cut the whole lobe out and grow another one. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">And whatever happened to the research in the cool chemical light lightning bugs put out ? bill w</div></div>
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