"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." 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 ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are doing promising research building animal organs from the ground up.

Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University is building organs in his lab. Last year he publicized his success of growing bladders -- the first actual living human organs created in a lab and grown unattached to a human being. Correspondent Tamara Krinsky visits with Atala and learns how he ''cooks'' and grows these organs. We also visit the ...

NextFest: Brainball & Fasttrack1 NextFest: Regenerative Medicine & Electro-Solar Cars Brainball and the amazing Fasttrack all-terrain vehicle are on display in this video clip shot at NextFest. Fasttrack1 is so cool, we don't even know where to begin. France 24. Nextfest is the convention of the future organized by the technology ...

Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the first step toward a major revolution in human regenerative medicine -- a future where advanced organ damage can be repaired by the body itself. In the May 2007 issue of The FASEB...

The promising future of regenerative medicine is evident in the work taking place now - both so obviously crude and so obviously far ahead of what has been possible in the past. Genetic Engineering News illustrates: ''The idea of growing an organ from one's own cells or healing spinal cord injuries with cells transformed from embryonic stem cells ...

ABCNews reminds us that you'll find the first (expensive, comparatively crude) experimental application of new technologies right where the money is. In the case of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, modern athletics is one such location: ''some researchers are optimistic that sports medicine could reap the benefits of stem cells in the ...

Via ScienceDaily, a snapshot of progress towards regenerating the loss that causes one type of deafness: ''researchers have isolated 'cochlear stem cells' located in the inner ear and already primed for development into ear-related tissue due to their proximity to the ear and expression of certain genes necessary for the development of hearing. ...

From EurekAlert!, a good example of challenge, learning and progress in the field of regenerative medicine: ''Replacing faulty or missing cells with new insulin-making cells has been the object of diabetes research for the last decade. Past studies in tissue culture have suggested that one type of pancreas cell could be coaxed to transform into ...

From FuturePundit, some thoughts on where you should be looking to see progress in implementing the next stages of regenerative medicine and enhancement built upon growing use of stem cells: ''Professional athletes are not risk averse. The doping in baseball and by athletes in other sports demonstrates the huge health risks they'll run in order to ...