Gene that allows growing a new head identified
Found on The Register on Sunday, 25 April 2010
The doc suggests that it may be possible in future to simply grow new organs and limbs for injuried or sick humans - even, perhaps, to repair their damaged brain in situ.
"If we know what is happening when tissues are regenerated under normal circumstances, we can begin to formulate how to replace damaged and diseased organs, tissues and cells in an organised and safe way following an injury caused by trauma or disease."
Without a doubt this would be great for humans too. I noticed that a lot of people do have heads which are not working at all; perhaps replacing them with a new one could help.