Apr 30 2008For Real: Man Regrows Finger With Pixie Dust

oh.

that is pretty f***ing rad.

so I suppose they could use this to grow the living tissue (human skin) that the terminators will need to be able to go back in time and kill us all?

#3 is probably right. so we should make sure that we then go back in time to kill the woman who will give birth to the man who invents the stuff.

ok 1 where's the bone in the middle of his finger? 2 WTF kind of model airplane is he playing with? What is it a 9/10 scale model? I mean shit man if it cuts off your finger you shouldnt be playing with it.

I, whew, wow. I would call "fake" but how can one call fake on pixie dust? I don't think it's kosher to declare a declaration of fakeness on pixie dust. *claps hands* Don't die, Tinkerbell, no!

I'm going to go back to sitting in the corner thinking of my Daniel Radcliffe face bicycle seat cover.

You can totally tell this is photoshopped, I think. It's fake, or something.

Sorry, I'm not very good at this whole "negative post" thing. Can someone help me out?

That is pretty badass though. Maybe he can help me restore my butthole from the time my girlfriend's vibrator decided to leak battery acid all over the place.

@ #7 ... it goes like this...

FAKE!

...and i'm terribly sorry and disturbed for you.... and you can't regenerate from acid or fire burns... troll regeneration 101

yeah, you're right. it must be fake. it's not like it came from (and with a link to) a credible news source - the B B effin C!

"I do believe in faries. I do believe in faires..."

that's well and good, but can it add girth to my dong?

Send this link to 10 people and you can grow a new finger too!

its not fake at all, it was on the bbc1 news at 10. as for "where is the bone" i would assume that by the time it gets to the tips of your fingers its quite small, and quite covered in blood in that photo.

I took off a similarly shocking chunk of my finger tip (didn't remove any bone), and re grew it no problem, that is something the human body is designed to handle, i don't have perfect feeling there, but it is good enough for me. though I admit my story would be cooler if i had rubbed it with pig parts dissolved in acid

Bit disappointed that the comments have actually been funnier than the article. I was totally expecting him to do the nob gags, like #10 did. Anyway, thanks for using the my tip though, you are now bound to do my request by the laws of pixie land, for the consequences lest ye fail, are to be branded with a penis tattoo on your arse.

Been there done that - 41,000 views can't be wrong. Here is my story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3EN-eUPc8

Yeah you're right. The number of video views is directly proportional to how true a story is! Well done Dave!

nice, pete. nice.

ew

dave... letting a deep cut heal by itself is a sort of completely different from growing back a finger thats been amputated?

not to mention you're an idiot for not getting stitches! would have saved you a lot of time...

first things first, i want my foreskin back

#10 never mind adding length, i want a second dong! you know, for when the first one is busy.

This is clearly bullshit. Even if this level of regeneration was available today for humans, it would NOT give you back your old fingerprint like this story claims. Identical twins, although genetic clones, do not share fingerprints.

The wound looks like a microwaved burrito... I'm hungry now..

@ 23
hahah yu are hungry after seeing that? thats sick mate real sick haha

why use pixie dust when your body regenerates itself kind off
i once cut 1.0 cm of my thumb including the nail and a piece of bone. now almost a year later my thumb is back to normal only the fingerprint is not complete.

(no im not from planet namek)

So you big big men get excited about missiles and bombs
(http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/post_11.php)
but squirm at a f*cking finger cut.

Pussies the lot.

I cut the tip of my thumb off on the table saw and the hospital gave me this new kind of "finger condom" with plastic-like anti-bacterial screen stuff on it. Four months have past and I'm still missing the tip of my god damn thumb. It doesn't look all that bad, but it sure as hell didn't grow back. If this stuff actually works then wow, it's light years ahead of what I just went through.

This is not just a finger tip, this Dude lost it down to the first joint. That's the secret though, if it were the second joint it wouldn't regrow.

However, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to regenerate our limbs. Of course my mind is not limited as I did make it to the third grade...twice!

Deliciously droll, in the tradition of the legendary BBC documentary on the Spaghetti Harvest in Italy from the 1960s (which showed in all seriousness how spaghetti was culled from the trees on which it grows and the elaborate curing processes employed). Of course, too, the appropriateness of the whole thing-- "in a pig's eye" is a phrase expressing scornful disbelief (pig's eye=pixie?) -- and the charac ter of The Fool, or Punch, the jester in the Christmas and May Day revels, always used a Pig's Bladder on a stick to beat people with, in jest, of course!

I don't know what to believe. If this is a joke being played by the BBC then it's a really cruel one. If it's attempting to be credible, the story becomes dubious when they mention that he has a fingerprint. Finger prints are not encoded in our DNA, they are a product of fetal contact with the uterine wall (the ridges and whorls form depending on exactly how the fetus' hands brush against the wall). In other words, they are a product of environment, which is why no two people, not even twins, have the same set of fingerprints. I am not sure as to whether a fingerprint will develop due to an adult's contact with surfaces outside of a uterus.

Damn, how many people on this site are missing parts of their fingers? Who woulda thunk it?

"fingerprints ... are a product of fetal contact with the uterine wall (the ridges and whorls form depending on exactly how the fetus' hands brush against the wall)"
wow Amy, do you believe every internet rumor that you read?

you are correct that fingerprints are not encoded in our DNA, but you are wrong as to how they are formed. a fetus already has it's fingerprints at 17 weeks, well before it's pressing it's hands against the uternine wall.

"Formation of the dermis requires chemical cues from the ectoderm, just as differentiation of the ectoderm into skin requires chemical cues from the underlying dermis. The ripples that form fingerprints are generated by adjusting these chemical cues in a pattern that is written into the connective tissue of the dermis. "

the environment will play a part in the formation, but it is not from pushing on the wall.

http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/may2007/pdf/ask_scientist.pdf
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-08/901135171.Me.r.html

and when you wound yourself, and the skin grows back, you get a new, random fingerprint because of the same reasons that formed the first ones - "any trauma that damages the dermis, like a bad burn or a deep injury, will destroy the pattern in that area, and a deformed (randomized) print will result when the skin grows back over the injury"

@ 30
yeah were freaks laugh at us cause we are missing bodyparts.
i think that makes us special (in my mind i know thats what freaks say to feel better about themselfs)

@30
in your mind, what do you say to feel better about your illiteracy?

This was also on CNN months ago.

I hate to spoil all the bad journalism and uninformed speculation, but here are some facts on the incident.

http://www.badscience.net/?p=664

That guy is going to burn in hell for keeping his precious secret from the world: Pixie stix regenerare extremities, he'll burn right next to the guy that invented cotton balls inside tiny aspirin bottles.

This seems like a fake, but the potential science behind it is fairly interesting. Take a look at the link to bad science posted above and count the number of creases in the finger where the joints are (on the before picture). There's one too many, showing that the end of his finger is probably a fake.

The potential for fusing wounds with extra-cellular matrix powder is an exciting one though, and would have enourmous benefits not only for re-generation of missing fingers, but also to reduce post operative healing time and reduce the rate of infection. I have no doubt that they are doing research into this stuff, but I doubt it was tested on this man.

Amy?

AHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA yeah that's totally how we get fingerprints. HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAA.... ohh, that made my day.

what a retard.

Apparently this is a joke or the web controllers would have not allowed such uncouth words in
these comments. They are certainly not medically acceptable comments. If this event is a true medical event then where are the names of the doctors, and medical facilities and medical journal entries in JAMA for such an amazing event and medical discovery?

However, there are real miracle events that are medically documented by real medical doctors and real medical facilities in over 15 different nations. These medical miracles have taken place in "healing rooms " throughout the world, and can be referenced at www.healingrooms.com through the International Association of Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington. Some of these miracles far exceed this "thumb restoration" in this very strange, medically unverified event.

I would also like to comment that, apparently, some of the responders of this Blog have an extremely limited vocabulary and
an extremely uneducated and extremely mentally "sick "way of expressing themselves concerning the parts of the human body. It is called, in normal society, "sick humor" and, apparently, your webmaster or web controller is just as "mentally twisted" to allow such human demeaning comments whether this is a "joke medical event or not." Some of the persons that responded to this article should read the first 10 Proverbs in the Old Testament. These first 10 Proverbs are specifically directed to juvenile
minded people. And some of these blog comments certainly are juvenile minded commentors. And, they definitely need a lot of spiritual and soul mind retraining as offered in Proverbs . They can also find a lot of help in most of the New Testament Bible. Filthy language is not a loving virtue and it does not command respect from other human beings. Selah.(think about it).

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/07/eveningnews/main3805318.shtml

http://health.howstuffworks.com/extracellular-matrix.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/205477.stm

This is for real guys. The ECM from pig bladder has already done miraculous things in veterinary practice. Instead of initiating an immune response to build scar tissue at the selected site of injury, the ECM from pig bladder initiates cell regeneration much like the process of regeneration in fetal tissue (read 3rd link above). This was a shocker for me when I first heard about it, but my professor, who engaged in related research, told me about the possibility of this biochemical pathway , and I am a stern believer that this substance will bring forth, as it already has, solutions to physical injuries in the future.

First!

this is sweet

It would be nice if this substance would regrow teeth that have been extracted.