'Regrown' limbs for US troops.AMERICAN soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan will have body parts "re-grown" for them under a pounds 125million Pentagon medical scheme. Stem cell stem cell In living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. therapies for burn repairs, wound healing wound healing Physiology The repair of a wound Steps Inflammation, repair and closure, remodeling, final healing; repair of incisions may be either simple–'clean' wounds with little loss of tissue heal by 'primary intention', or 'dirty' wounds heal by , facial and limb reconstruction could be developed in five years by university teams for the new Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. After over 900 amputations since the start of the conflicts, such troops could at least get new skin, ears or noses. A defence health spokesman said: "Our task is to get these people functioning to fully participate in society." Similar work is being done on animals. But trials on humans have not yet begun. |
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