DARPA'S HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

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ITEM [via Wired’s Danger Room]: DARPA wants its Restorative Injury Repair program – which aims to “fully repair” body parts damaged by traumatic injury – to develop a device that can use adult stem cells for a regenerative free-for-all, pumping out whatever needed to repair injured body parts, including nerves, bone and skin.

According to Darpa’s solicitation, 85 percent of recent wartime injuries involved damage to the extremities and facial regions. That often means multiple surgeries, rehab and permanent disability for vets. They’re hoping to eliminate the injuries, and their long-term consequences, with a system that can reproduce in vitro tissues with the same structural and mechanical properties of the real stuff. And maybe make better versions: Darpa wants implanted results that will  “replace, restore or improve tissue/organ function.”

Now if only they could come up with something to repair the psychological horror that also comes with having yr extremeties and face blown off.

Walk it off,

This is dF

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