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"Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature" - Karl Marx
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 No.17452

 No.17453

This Michael Levin guy is about to hit a breakthrough in cancer research, limb generation, and furries?!

 No.18104

>>17452
Used to be obsessed with this guy but it seems like he hasn't really done anything new with his ideas. That frog leg he regenerated is something that had been done decades ago with hormones iirc. It didn't have any bones in its toes, so it wouldn't be very useful for humans anyways. Still fascinating ideas, I'm definitely rooting for him and will watch this video later.

 No.18105

Can someone summarize the hype around this guy and his research?

 No.18114

>>18104
>It didn't have any bones in its toes, so it wouldn't be very useful for humans anyways
What about a cock?

 No.18369

>>18114
If he could regenerate dicks it would be the greatest advancement in medicine since the vaccine

 No.22128

>>18105
Very briefly - his big idea, bioelectricity, is that the body of an organism isn't much different from the brain - cells communicate with one another via electrical signals to form and achieve goals - what we call intelligence. He's using biochemistry to manipulate cells' electrical signals and thus their goals, and he's done this to great effect on lesser organisms - from making frogs regenerate their hind limbs to making flatworms grow multiple heads with different shapes. The ultimate goal of course is to apply this technology to mammals, especially humans, but he apparently hasn't had any success on that front.

Someone who knows more marxist philosophy than me could probably explain what this has to do with dialectics.

 No.22129

>>18104
They've used electricty to regrow amputated rat limbs in the 70s. Good that people are researching it again tho.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep18353


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