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A delivery vehicle would be a wearable bioreactor that creates an aqueous
environment like amniotic fluid. Thus allowing appropriate ion currents
allowing the injury to be stimulated into regeneration.
In perfecting the signaling then that should someday allow this to be used in
serious limb injuries, likely starting with regrowing fingers, toes, hands and
feet.
Other Scientists Working In This Area
There are very few scientists working in this area of bioelectrical research for
human regeneration but this will likely change. One particular group of
scientists in Scotland have been working with bioelectrical systems in limb
regeneration research.
Dr Ann Rajnicek at Aberdeen University points out that the importance of the
role of electricity of regeneration and tissue repair has been greatly
overlooked by researchers. She and her team have been demonstrating the
effects electricity has with flatworms.
She also points out that if you try to sell the idea of the importance of
electricity for research into regeneration then you get a cool response from
funding agencies.
Most of the those approval organizations providing the funding, want to stay
away from bioelectricity in fear of "pseudo" science and feel the answers lay in
biochemical mechanisms.
