20 years? 50 years? 100 years? Never?
2006-10-24 00:34:26 · 8 answers · asked by JIVE TURKEY 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
eh, even if the stem cells were free to be resarched, it wouldn't make any difference. we've come so far in other areas that simply growing a new arm wouldn't be worth it. instead you might end up with a bio-kinetic arm, it would be machine but you wouldn't feel the difference, it would be just as fast as your old one, and have the same level of control. i'd say les than 20 on that one.
2006-10-24 06:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by hero08291997 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never.
This is not a stem cell issue. Limb generation involves creating multiple types of tissue (muscle, connective tissue, blood vessles, skin) with a very specific spatial orientation to each other. Its not a matter of programing certain cells to become liver or heart muscle. Its having cells know not only what types to become but also to know where to go.
The embryologic development of limbs involves a cascade of hormonal and genetic triggers that help the cells know where they are in the body. I don't think we will ever be able to replicate this.
20 years? Serious what have we done in the last 20 years, came up with a few new drugs that's it.
2006-10-24 11:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever it will become possible which is most likely sometime in the next 20 years. It will probably only be for the rich and people with Special Insurance no chance of ever getting that on the NHS in the UK. Where I am.
2006-10-24 08:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by anon4112 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With advances in stem cell research, probably within 50 years. I hope the USA doesn't conceed this technology to other countries, too.
2006-10-24 11:20:24 · answer #4 · answered by davidosterberg1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is actually possible around now, but it is the ethics stopping it from happening. All it is is altering/turning on genes although it does take a bit of time probaly around 10 years if it is allowed
2006-10-24 07:46:27 · answer #5 · answered by metallicash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it ever will.. it's not a matter of regenerating one thing, it's many.. blood, muscle, ligaments, tissue, bone.. That's too many things to regenerate.. I don't think it's going to happen.
2006-10-24 15:56:11 · answer #6 · answered by Imani 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say when they get a full grasp of stem cell research.
2006-10-24 07:43:39 · answer #7 · answered by cajunpalomino 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never.
2006-10-24 10:43:17 · answer #8 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋