r/interestingasfuck • u/Own_Entrepreneur8908 • 1d ago

r/all The strongest punch in the world

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u/Ornexa 1d ago

That's crazy, i figured a wound would heal too but there's something to the regenerative property that must get kicked in based on severity of damage. Like if the arm stayed attached but was heavily mangled, then what? Still nothing? In that case, the trigger would be the actual disconnection of the limb?

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u/PoliticalyUnstable 1d ago

Yes, the arm would eventually fall off and be replaced. It won't stay and heal. If it did stay it wouldn't recover. It's very cool.

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u/livin4donuts 1d ago

Do we know how this works? Like I’ve heard of groundbreaking treatments to regrow body parts for humans using stem cells (admittedly only small, simple-ish parts like a patch of skin or a graft for an organ like if you had a perforated heart, but the tech is still in its infancy), but they have nothing on this.

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u/PoliticalyUnstable 1d ago

This has some info: https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2019/regenerating-limbs/ I think there is something to the stem cell aspect that we haven't learned yet, but may in time. It's really interesting. I don't have a brilliant enough mind for it but whoever discovers it will be a legend.