If you lost a limb, and your body could regenerate by stretching atoms, would you lose structural integrity?

Question

Or, perhaps you would become transparent?

This is obviously a hypothetical question, but I wondered: what would happen if you lost a limb, and were able to regenerate it with atoms already in your body. Would you eventually lose enough atoms (if you kept losing limbs, ha ha) that you would fall apart? Would you become transparent?

What would happen to you?

Obviously, this would fall into a "science fiction" sort of setting. I know we can't currently do this, and may never be able to. As I said, it is hypothetical.

Answer 1

Regeneration in other animals in accomplished by growing new cells made from atoms consumed in food. Somehow that ability was lost when our ancestors evolved past the amphibian class. It's not a "ridiculous" proposition to track down and reintroduce those long lost genes in the context of genetic engineering.

Answer 2

this would not really happen. regenerating a lost limb is totally rediculous.
and if it would be happening with the atoms already in our body our body could even get misshapened.

Answer 3

Try reading this article about regeneration of human limbs.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/news/2006/09/71817