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Deer Antlers for Regenerating Lost Limbs? Could you lose one hand and grow back another? Cut off your ears and regrow another pair? Humans cannot do this, deer neither, but they shed their antlers annually and regenerate others, even bigger and this could come with some explanations for us. And deer are closer to us than the limb regenerating salamanders."Th... 30 November 2007 09:56 GMT Maggots Heal Us of Superbugs! With all the advanced techniques and technologies, in the end we have to go back to nature to find protection against superbugs, bacteria that have developed resistance against antibiotics. A team at the University of Manchester led by Professor Andrew Boulton has managed to eradicate in 13 diabetic patients the supe... 29 October 2007 07:05 GMT Auto-Heating Bandages for Extreme Sports Good news for winter sport lovers. A novel portable plastic splint that heat-molds itself around broken or wounded limbs is being designed to help skiers and others who enjoy taking part in extreme snow sports.To use the splint, the patient must wrap strips of resistant but flexible plastic bandage tightly around the... 28 March 2007 06:49 GMT