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For Real: Man Regrows Finger With Pixie Dust

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2008-04-30 17:00:02 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...Spievak cut his finger off and then regrew it using pixie dust. "I put my finger in," Mr. Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off." Wow, Lee, wow. Reminds me of the time I stuck my tongue in an oscillating fan. Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years...
 
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Regrowth of finger through Pig bladder therapy

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2008-05-03 05:29:57 by Editor in Medlaunches.com
...Spievak, while fiddling with his model airplane two years ago, accidentally sliced half inch off of the middle finger on his right hand including his nail in the propeller. Examining the fingers, doctors told him hed never get it back, but his brother Alan didnt lose hope and sent him some powder derived from a pig bladder. Spievak rubbed the...
 
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Biomagic "pixie dust" regrows man's lopped-off finger

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2008-05-01 05:01:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...Spievak lost half an inch of finger to an agressive model plane blade, and doctors had little hope for the appendage. Lucky for Lee, his brother Alan works in the field of regenerative medicine, and sent him some powder (which lee calls "pixie dust") to apply to the finger. Four weeks later Lee had grown back the entire finger, as good as...
 
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Biomagic pixie dust regrows mans lopped-off finger

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2008-05-01 11:05:16 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...Spievak lost half an inch of finger to an agressive model plane blade, and doctors had little hope for the appendage. Lucky for Lee, his brother Alan works in the field of regenerative medicine, and sent him some powder (which lee calls pixie dust) to apply to the finger. Four weeks later Lee had grown back the entire finger, as good as new....
 
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Model plane enthusiast claims magic powder helped him regrow finger

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2008-05-01 17:14:09 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Spievak, RC flight enthusiast, knew something was wrong from the very moment his model plane loop-de-looped in the crisp spring air. The controls were unresponsive; it was as if the plane had a mind of its own. As the tiny toy flying machine dive-bombed towards him with the ruthlessness of a bird-of-prey, its propellor blades flashing like...
 
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Medical Pixie Dust: Is It Finally Here?

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2008-05-06 08:00:01 by Michael in Medgadget
...Spievak, his brother Alan is a researcher within the field of regenerative medicine, and had access to Dr Stephen Badylak's "pixie dust", developed at the University of Pittsburgh The process [Dr Stephen Badylak] has been pioneering over the last few years involves scraping the cells from the lining of a pig's bladder. The remaining tissue is...
 
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