(12-20-2009 6:23 PM)Julia Layton of Health.howstuffworks.com Wrote:  When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip.

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Wow, advances in this field may mitigate one of my biggest fears -- losing limbs. I sure hope this breaks through quickly, not just for my fears, but for the people actually afflicted by limb loss. Cool find, I'll keep the this in mind. Hopefully I'll never have to try it out.

That story is actually several years old. I remember reading about it a year or two ago, I think in Popular Science magazine, but it might have been elsewhere.

Oh, well then I wonder where it's gone since then. Anyone know?

There was a segment a couple of weeks ago on 60 Minutes that was about growing all  sorts of body parts. Heart valves, bladders, ears etc.