• Question: Is it possible to grow extra parts of your body?

    Asked by anon-238977 to Hannah, binuraj, Alice on 18 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Hi Jabari,

      You have asked a very good question. We can’t grow any extra part out of our body, but we do actually regenerate many parts in our body. Example is our skin, hair, gut lining etc etc. Humans or animals can pretty well regenerate such simple bits, but not complex structure like nose , eyes or hands etc.

    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 18 Mar 2020: last edited 18 Mar 2020 5:17 pm

      There are scientists who are working on trying to do things like this in the laboratory so i think it may be possible in the future! (But as Binuraj says we can’t do this like a starfish can!)

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