Salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets
Submitted by Steve on 29 May 2008 - 8:15pm.
Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, last year.
The experimental "Pixie Dust" is being used as part of a major medical study of "regenerative medicine" being pursued by the Pentagon and several of the nation's top medical facilities, including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic.
To read more...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/26/regrowing.body.parts/index.html