Welcome to Nerdologia I'm Atila, biologist, researcher and I recruit heros for the best tasks. Today, we'll undertstand how Deadpool's regeneration power works. With the healing power, just like Wolverine's, Wade Wilson is able to survive a lot of things.
From elephants attacks, explosions, stabs to dismemberment And if you've never watched the second Nerdologia episode, from that time that I coudn't speak properly, you lost a few hints that I gave about how to ignore regeneration and kill both of them. Putting aside the immortality that Deadpool got from selling a bunch of comic books, I mean. .
. Being punished by getting into a relationship with Death! He has very amazing regeneration skills.
And even if it seems impossible to someone who get cut, break a bone and spend months recovering regeneration is not that complicated to a lot of animals. The star-fish, for example, not only can regenerate a ripped out arm, but also the arm become another star-fish. which it can also be used as a reproducing way.
If Deadpool doesn't want to leave little Wilsons around He needs to do like amphibians and always regenerate from a preferential point of the body like the head or heart. This way, only the peace that has the preferential part will be able to regenerate. Salamanders like newt has such a good regeneration that they're not only able to grow new members amputated legs or tail But also can do it a lot of times and regenerate parts of their bodies like jaws, eyes and even heart parts!
And when a leg is lost, the salamander creates a bunch of cells called blastema, in that leg part that's left This blastema is capable to - all alone - create the whole leg Even if reattached elsewhere. Which means that if Deadpool can regenerate members with blastemas He can also donate arms and legs for amputees On the other hand, we, mammals, lose the ability to regenerate so well. We only can create a liver from a piece But most of the other organs do not regenerates that way.
African spiny mice, the Acomyis, can throw away whole pieces of skin, with fur and everything To deceive predators and then regenerate everything that was lost But we are not capable of creating a hand or a finger again. One explanation of why we don't have Dr Connors' healing powers is the exchange between regeneration and cicatrization. When we get hurt, one of our body's first reaction is to stanch the blood either lowering the blood pressure or coagulating blood in the wound But the body can do more than that.
If it is a open wound our skin is capable to produce and spread collagen fibers that are used to stop the bleeding and protect the wound region. It's this protection that creates the scar. Deadpool would need to do the same if he wanted to stay alive Having such a huge healing capacity, beeing able to close any wound as fast as possible and not letting it get infected.
But, after that, would need to throw away the scab And let the cleared area for recovery And not that ugly face! By the way, one of the Deadpool's biggest concerns should be about keeping the blood inside of his body. After all, where would he get water and nutrients to regenerate?
All matter has to come from somewhere Imagine that Deadpool have lost a leg and an arm And a few liters of blood He goes from 95 kilos (209 lbs) to 65 kilos (143 lbs) Without putting the member back, eating or drinking water he wouldn't be able to go back to 95 kilos (209 lbs). Another important point to do a Weapon X with the regeneration of Deadpool is to decide "How? " he will regenerate the wound Most of the cells in our body, if they can divide, only divide to form the same kind of specialized cell A neuron is already adapted to form neurons that it's not capable to form other kinds of cells.
Only a few cells don't specialize themselfs that much and with this they continue to form others. Like the bone marrow that still is capable to form a lot of blood cells Those cells are capable to form others are called stem cells that can be both pluripotent as embryonic cells that form our body. Or just multipotent or oligopotent able to form only some cell types.
Like the bone marrow To form a lost arm, Deadpoll would need a reserve pluripotent cells in his body to form that kind of member And knowing what he went through, if that's the case, there would be no more the stem cells left over. Another way is to do just like salamander do and convice the already specialized cells to deprogram And be able to form new ones again. Just like the UFRJ researcher Steves Rehen is doing with skin cells that he convinces to form neurons.
In that case, the only thing Deadpool needs to do is reprogram his cells, but without eating in a battle, for example, and when he's regenerating, his cells would be lefting their job to form what was lost, which means that he would gradually shrinking as regenerates. In other words. .
. If Deadpool or Wolverine are able to regenerates so well, they would be helping a lot more beeing stem cells donors, members and organs, than fighting crime. That's what would make biological sense!
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