{"id":154196,"date":"2023-01-02T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/miracle-powder-regrows-fingers-now-thigh-muscle-for-marine"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:25:48","slug":"miracle-powder-regrows-fingers-now-thigh-muscle-for-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/miracle-powder-regrows-fingers-now-thigh-muscle-for-marine","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/miracle-powder-regrows-fingers-now-thigh-muscle-for-marine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2011 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It was only a year ago that ACell\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2010\/05\/15\/miracle-powder-regrows-fingertips-well-sorta-video\/\">miracle powder<\/a>\u201d was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the regeneration of fingertips. The world was both awed and skeptical of the powder\u2019s regenerative power, touting that it would revolutionize regenerative medicine or calling it was quack science.<\/p>\n<p>A fingertip is one thing. A thigh, quite another.<\/p>\n<p>After losing most of his thigh muscle in a battlefield explosion, one marine was given a second chance when another such miracle powder caused much of his thigh to grow back. It\u2019s not only a wonderful feel-good story, but demonstrating that the same substance can grow back different tissues suggests that we may have only seen a small part of its full regenerative potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2011 face_with_colon_three It was only a year ago that ACell\u2019s \u201cmiracle powder\u201d was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the regeneration of fingertips. The world was both awed and skeptical of the powder\u2019s regenerative power, touting that it would revolutionize regenerative medicine or calling it was quack science. A fingertip is one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}