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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 3968931" data-attributes="member: 115">Indeed, this is probably the most promising of everything on this list.The problem with silkworms is that they're not terribly efficient in bulk... which is why they tried for the goat.  There's an additional problem for use in animals - generally anything that's going to increase spinnability (the ability for a liquid to clump, basically) is very bad for an organism.  You'd have to produce it in very low concentrations... again, losing a great deal of efficiency.Using this for human skin grafts is probably being studied (I'm pretty sure it is), but the problem is that skin is much more complex than a simple layer.  Furthermore, skin is highly pressure sensative... interfering with that is sub-optimal at best.  The big goal is to regenerate skin with nerves.I imagine that this would be good in a military or civil engineering situation, where you need to get over a large gap quickly.  I'd bet that's actually how it was developed.Full disclosure: I am a bioengineering PhD student, and bioelectrics is my specific field of research (biomaterials is the broad version).Honestly, this device is a total joke - total snake-oil.  There's evidence that electric currents can induce slightly better regeneration on a local area, but not on the level that these snake-oil machines imply.  Like you said HSB, research into genetics, stem cells, and cell signaling proves much more useful for tissue, nerve, and bone regeneration.  Bioelectrics certainly has many uses - but it is not a panacea for cellular damage and never will be.</blockquote>

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