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Many have probably heard the story of when a man regrows a finger with help of pig bladder extract. I was amazed when I first saw the story. After studying various reports I was able to deduce that apparently the experimental powder helps to attract adult stem cells to the injury site and then encourages them to completely restore the missing tissue.
“The broad outline is pretty straightforward. The powder is mostly collagen and a variety of substances, without any pig cells”, said Badylak, who’s a scientific adviser to ACell. “It forms microscopic scaffolding for incoming human cells to occupy, and it emits chemical signals to encourage those cells to regenerate tissue,” he said.
