I just realized how incredible it is that we don't have toes growing out of our ears.
AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don't have toes growing out of our ears.
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It's not that incredible, considering we can get cysts full of teeth and hair inside the body
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Oh yes, teratomes are not fun. But thankfully they are comparably rare.
Imagine if you suddenly sprouted a tumor with functional tastebuds in your colon
"So what brings you into the doctors office today?"
"Well for some reason everything I eat ends up tasting like shit."
Ugh and I thought burping after having Fish Oil pills was bad…
Wonder if we could use that phenomena to regenerate teeth in a lab for replacements and dentures.
Probably no different than stem cell stuff