Any one else seen this? Pretty amazing stuff !!

[The Fragmaster]

Researchers used coral skeleton "pins" ( I am assuming that means they made pin like sections from it?) to regenerate bone in both birds, animals and HUMANS. Maybe some one has already posted this? Its a fairly old article.
I stumbled on it while searching for proper Vitamin C dosages per tank volume today ( of which I found NADA ! )

http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/197/1/11.pdf

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Wow great read! Thanks for sharing and nice to see you around here more. You need to post up a frag pack in the classifieds. :D

 

[143gadgets]

That's awesome! I guess i should start donating all of my dead sps. :)

 

[Hypertek99]

Wow that's pretty cool. I'll sign my corals up for Organ Donars. lol

 

[shivametimbas]

a guy that works with my mother is having an fake eye put in. they use a piece of coral in the back so that nerves or muscles grow into it so that maybe he will get some movement to the eye.

 

[Smarsh]

3.2 years ago, when my neice was 10 months old, she had to have her eye removed. They used the coral to make a stump for a fake eye. It is pretty amazing. They sewed the muscles to the coral stump and it moves just like a real eye. If she looks left, the fake eye looks left.

Sandy

 

[The Fragmaster]

WOW ! thats amazing what they can do now days isn't it.

:)