(July 28, 2019 at 5:44 pm)Haipule Wrote:I did.(July 28, 2019 at 1:48 pm)LostLocke Wrote: Correct. Sort of.Rib bones do grow back if removed. It takes 2-3 months and will reattach to the spine and be as good as new once healed. If a persons face is destroyed in an accident, the surgeon will remove a rib to reconstruct the face. If they need more bone, in a few months they will remove the same rib which grows back. They will remove it as many times as is necessary.
The biggest detail, you neglected to mention, is that the quantity in marrow is very small. Plus, those stem cells are not "potent". They have a limited range as to what they can become.
Bones are 'just bones', they don't come inside a sheath. If you mean the marrow inside the bone will regenerate, then yes, that is correct.
If you're saying that a bone will grow back if it's removed, science totally disagrees. A removed bone is gone, permanently. And a removed rib will not "regrow" into a human, it will just die. At even a rediculous best case scenerio, the rib will just grow more rib.
Google it.
"Bones do repair themselves to some extent. But they can’t regenerate or replace themselves fully for the same reason that we can’t grow ourselves a new lung or an extra eye."