The Pros And Cons Of Human Regeneration

Like we have said before, Time Lords have a peculiar way to cheat death: they do die, but they don’t really die. When this happens, Time Lords undergo a total regeneration, previously called renovation, after which they practically start a new life. People may think that this doesn’t happen in real life, but there are actually some organisms that can regenerate themselves just like the Doctor. Humans are also subjected to regeneration, but on a smaller scale. When we scratch our arm, we can make a small wound, which gets inflamed, and the surrounding part of skin becomes red. Therefore, our cells start to work in order to heal these wounds. In a few days, our skin will look brand new. For what concerns human regeneration, we are still far from discovering the secrets of human regeneration, as there is only a
Even though on paper they seem to be the best candidate, but salamanders imply three huge obstacles to our research. Firstly, it can take a month for a limb of a salamander to regenerate and it would end up slowing down the whole experimentation. Secondly, salamander DNA is extremely amplified and its full sequence remains unknown to the scientists. As we have seen, science is trying to discover how humans can regenerate certain parts of their bodies just like animals do, but in fact, humans have a regenerative process of their own. Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve regrowing body parts. Humans “regenerate” in some way, because our cells are being constantly replaced. If we average out all the lifespans of the trillions of cells that form our bodies, they live a maximum of 7-10 years. So we can actually say that humans are regenerating, body part by body part, but in such a slow way, which is definitely not enough for