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''A FRUSTRATING SCIENTIFIC JUNCTION!''
There are Scientists who question whether the powder was really the catalyst for what happened to Spievack's finger. Ken Muneoka, a Tulane Scientist who has been working on tissue regeneration for two decades, says his own research suggests that fingertips can grow back on their own, even in a man of Spievack's age.
Some of this back-and-forth is a scientific equivalent of play ground trash talk. Both Muneoka and Badylak are at the center of a sort of Manhattan Project to regrow limbs. DARPA, The Defense Department research-and-development agency, has been closely watching the progress of limb regeneration, given the thousands of soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, after getting body parts blown-off. The Agency is now spending million of dollars to fund two teams of researchers racing to regrow toes in mice.
They must show DARPA that they can successfully take the first step and grow a blastema a collection of cells that can form a new body part.
If they can do that, a toe is not far behind.
Professor Badylak is confident about his method, but he also believes that that his approach alone is not going to fully unlock the body's regenerative potential. There are researchers trying other methods. Many are adamant that pig material does not need to be used at all -that artificial scaffolds can work betters and faster.
Other researchers are using the scaffolds in entirely different ways.
Dr Badylak says he doesn't want to be known as ''the guy who grows fingers.''But like it or not, please for his help reach him daily in the form of e-mails, letters and phone calls. A Sad faraway look covers his face as he recalls the tragedies of the people who approach him for help.
For the moment, Professor Badylak works at a junction of having achieved something very very remarkable but not being able to explain exactly how he did it.
''It's a lot of fun. Much better than not being able to do it all. If you know that it can happen, then it's easy to remain enthusiastic and motivated about looking for the reasons why. If you do not know for sure that it can happen, then you start to wonder if there is even an answer.''
For Badylak the wondering seems to be over. The puzzle maybe incomplete but the answer he knows is somewhere out there!
Many thanks to !WOW!
Good night & God bless!
There are Scientists who question whether the powder was really the catalyst for what happened to Spievack's finger. Ken Muneoka, a Tulane Scientist who has been working on tissue regeneration for two decades, says his own research suggests that fingertips can grow back on their own, even in a man of Spievack's age.
Some of this back-and-forth is a scientific equivalent of play ground trash talk. Both Muneoka and Badylak are at the center of a sort of Manhattan Project to regrow limbs. DARPA, The Defense Department research-and-development agency, has been closely watching the progress of limb regeneration, given the thousands of soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, after getting body parts blown-off. The Agency is now spending million of dollars to fund two teams of researchers racing to regrow toes in mice.
They must show DARPA that they can successfully take the first step and grow a blastema a collection of cells that can form a new body part.
If they can do that, a toe is not far behind.
Professor Badylak is confident about his method, but he also believes that that his approach alone is not going to fully unlock the body's regenerative potential. There are researchers trying other methods. Many are adamant that pig material does not need to be used at all -that artificial scaffolds can work betters and faster.
Other researchers are using the scaffolds in entirely different ways.
Dr Badylak says he doesn't want to be known as ''the guy who grows fingers.''But like it or not, please for his help reach him daily in the form of e-mails, letters and phone calls. A Sad faraway look covers his face as he recalls the tragedies of the people who approach him for help.
For the moment, Professor Badylak works at a junction of having achieved something very very remarkable but not being able to explain exactly how he did it.
''It's a lot of fun. Much better than not being able to do it all. If you know that it can happen, then it's easy to remain enthusiastic and motivated about looking for the reasons why. If you do not know for sure that it can happen, then you start to wonder if there is even an answer.''
For Badylak the wondering seems to be over. The puzzle maybe incomplete but the answer he knows is somewhere out there!
Many thanks to !WOW!
Good night & God bless!
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