Thursday, May 01, 2008

The man who grew a finger


Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.


The "pixie dust" comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.


Doctors though believe that within the so called pixie dust lies an amazing medical discovery.


Stephen Francis Badylak, D.V.M., Ph.D., M.D.
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Title: Research Professor, Department of SurgeryDirector of Tissue Engineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine


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