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he United States Department of Defense recently announced that the new Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine is going to focus some of their funding dollars toward research to re-grow extremities lost by combat soldiers around the world. Participating with public universities and private institutions, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine is allocating much of its millions of dollars of funding to gather and study stem cell research and technology to find new ways to reconstruct skin, muscles, and tendons, as well as perhaps even replacing fingers, noses, and ears.

Lt. General Eric B. Shoemaker, US Army Surgeon General, says, "The cells that we're talking about actually exist in our bodies today. We, even as adults, possess in our bodies small quantities of cells which have the potential, under the right kind of stimulation, to become any one of a number of different kinds of cells."

Scientists and researchers understand that the body automatically replaces and regenerates bone marrow and liver cells. Techniques developed by the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine will be used to regrow tissues that may be used to create muscles and tendons for the repair, and even replacement of small extremities.

Says Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, "All the parts of your body, tissues and organs, have a natural repository of cells that are ready to replicate one injury occurs." Avoiding issues of rejection, and helping soldiers to heal from injuries obtained during active duty are the prime goals and benefits of such research.

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