if humans already have the genes to regenerate limbs, why can't it be enabled?
>>16851809It probably can, we're just not quite entirely sure how. Yamanaka factors look like at least part of the solution, but there is a lot of ongoing research into animals like axolotls that naturally can.
>>16851809When you're doing X, you don't always just look at X, you see how X affects Y, how Y affects Z and so onSure you could probably regenerate a limb but is it causing something worse somewhere else? When encouraging growth of major parts of the body, cancer is a factor
>>16851809how do you know it can't?
"Grow, grow!"
>>16851809Red tape, funding
>>16852101I'd honestly just blame complexity more. There has been a lot of funding, a lot of research, and a lot of progress in figuring it out without it quite working yet.
We don't even have accessible treatment to regenerate skin, what are you talking about.
>>16851809>regrow my thieving hands!Honestly, why stop at reverting skin cells to stem cells just to new finger cells? I want to devolve those stem cells back to cephalopod and grow myself some fucking tentacles.
>>16851809If humans already have the genes to regenerate genes, why can't it be enabled?
>>16851848Cancer would be far less of a problem if cutting off body parts is only a temporary inconvenience
>>16852214see >>16851839>Hydrolate of Helichrysum italicum Promotes Tissue Regeneration During Wound Healing>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10805257/You're just not that well-educated on all the deranged China plant extract Yamanaka factor upregulators out there.>>16852262Small molecule Yamanaka factor upregulators have an increasing body of evidence of being non-carcinogenic. The main barrier to effective limb regeneration along with reduction of cancer risk is finding effective cellular differentiation and migration induction protocols that get the right cells to the right places.
>>16851809Because then atheists could no longer cry about God not answering the prayer to regrow a limbThey'd have to start crying "why doesn't God regrow a-a-a-ah-HEAD?!?
>>16852310Adding on to this, I think the most "fruitful" research in this area will ack-shilly come out of the artificial meat industry, quite unironically and ironically at the same time.>t. been keeping on top of fake meat papers' differentiation induction cocktails for making existing limbs more swole
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>>16851809Because that would destroy the healthcare industry
>>16851809Nigga look like a pit bull
