Pixie Dust Makes Severed Finger Regrow
BBC:
‘Pixie dust’
….”I put my finger in,” Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, “and that’s when I sliced my finger off.”
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he’d lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn’t know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it’s all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
How? Well that’s the truly remarkable part. It wasn’t a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.
Mr Speivak’s brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.
For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.
“The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.
“It took about four weeks before it was sealed.”
Now he says he has “complete feeling, complete movement.”
The “pixie dust” comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.
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PERHAPS A JUDICIOUS APPLICATION OF SUCH TO ONE’S PECKER MIGHT HAVE THE DESIRED RESULTS.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:03 amIP727
Perhaps….but would one have to get it cut off by something similar to a model aircraft propeller, in order for it to work?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:44 amDC
IP727
Perhaps….but would one have to get it cut off by something similar to a model aircraft propeller, in order for it to work?
Either that or an overeager monica type.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pmWell there’s only one way to tell
….now who’s gonna volunteer, cuz it sure as hell isn’t going to be me. lol
May 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pmFirst find out the cost of pixie dust, it might cost you more than an arm and a leg. Bet there are thousands of Saudi’s that would get in line for this treatment.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm