Injured? Maybe Antlers Could Help
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2024
- Scientists have recently discovered the cells responsible for a deer's amazing ability to regrow antlers in just a few months. It may be the key to healing human wounds and broken bones faster.
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Broke my leg and the deer antler stem cells really did help it heal faster. Unfortunately my leg falls off every February now.
Hopefully they patch that in the next update.
That's why I make sure that I stagger my leg growth. Sometimes I forget and end up with four legs...
@@SayAhh So you're a centaur now?
🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I can't wait for them to finally create jackalopes.
yessssss
update: I want horns.
Reminds me always of Faith and "Only youuuu....."
They're already real, they all hang out in Sasquatch's garden
"Them"? The giant ants?
And you're saying it like jackalopes aren't real. I've seen pictures of them. I've seen stuffed heads and stuffed whole bodies. Why wouldn't they be real?
Big Dentistry doesn't want you to know this one weird trick.
That would be nice
Teeth aren't bones!
@@ancientswordrage Fair point, although it seems reasonable to think this will be a huge step towards enamel regeneration.
@@ancientswordrageNeither is skin, and it helped with that.
Big dentistry is trialing a treatment to regrow teeth this year.ssooooooo....
Deer heal faster because they're actually shapeshifted druids and they're spending spell slots to cast Cure Wounds on themselves.
Oh no ive eaten a druid?!
@@colonagray2454no "when someone "die" in wild shape they go back to normal, so remember: double shot, don't let they get away"
-The lizardfolk huntsmen 1693
What does that even mean
Tbf, I'm pretty sure we see antler regeneration as normal because we just don't see antlers as organs per se.
Good to know just adding those stem cells to an active injury on other animals is just enough for them not to turn into antlers or cancer blobs though; maybe this might even help it move up faster than it usually does for this kind of new research.
yea when i heard cells with "higher concentration of growth factors" i instantly though cancer
Stem cell: "Hello, I am here to build some antlers."
Bone cells: "The f* you do, buddy, we have an emergency and need all hands on deck. You take Jeremy here and go to work. Fix that damn bone!"
@@nathanielausten1577 So did I.
I can't donate because I live paycheck to paycheck but I also want to say thank you to all the patrons that help bring me my favorite show.
My best friend is literally in surgery to amputate his leg right now. Would have been awesome if this research was further along, but it's good to know less people may have to lose a limb after it's been crushed.
Probably doesn't mean much from some internet random, but I hope his surgery went well and his recovery is as smooth as can be.
@DSlyde thank you. The surgeon said it's gone well. I have mixed feelings about his doctors though.
I mean objectively growing back an entire limb that’s a whole other story. Yeah that’s some tough luck but you still alive to tell the tale so Darwin says that’s a win.
Very sorry to hear of your friend. I wish them all the best. One direction of research would be combine modified antler stem cells, with pig extra-cellular matrix (pixie dust) 3D printed. If the tech can be progressed, your friend may be able to regrow their limb later on in life. Could something vets worldwide would be very interested in supporting.
I didn't realize that I wanted antlers, until I started watching this video. I know that's not the point, but now I just wanna be a creature of the forest.
Lol
It is pretty awesome.
That was my main take away from this: "So... you're saying that I could have antlers? That sounds really inconveient and cumbersome. Where do I sign up?"
We could all live as elvish forest creatures
Sure, furry avatar, i totally believe you've never wanted animal features before...
Speaking of healing, you seem to be bouncing back strong from chemo. Good to see.
I assumed antlers we're just made of keratin, that they have bones surprised me but did explain how they can have a complex shape.
yes, ungulates can have two completely different types of "horns". antlers are grown and shed each year, out of bone and skin, while horns are permanent and grown from keratin, like your fingernails. sheep and goats and rhinos all have keratin-based horns.
Then there are "tusks" which are actually elongated teeth. This is what elephants and narwhals have, for example. All examples of parallel evolution.
My mother is having a reverse shoulder replacement today. I feel like this could be the future of joint replacement
Having had this same surgery just under 6 months ago, please give your mother my best wishes in her recovery. Plus: GO TO PT RELIGIOUSLY and DO THE EXERCISES!
Wish you and your Mom the best and a speedy recovery 🤞
"reverse shoulder replacement" sounds like a euphemism amputation
@@Avendesora Y'know, the first time I heard this term I had a hard time wrapping my head around it as well. I am a long term (as in starting at under 3 years old) orthopaedic patient, and in total have had 16 orthopaedic surgeries, including hips, knees, shoulders, and even one wrist. Add to that - I have nearly 40 years in the medical profession before retirement. I had to have a detailed explanation, and then I looked it up. Rather than get into a lengthy explanation here, I suggest you look on YT for the term. Given my history, I hope, for the sake of other orthopaedic patients to come, that the deer antler stem cell research works to prevent such a surgical history as befell me.
Injured person: I seem to have broken my bones and flesh, please help.
Scientists:Oh, deer!
Antlers were also used as inspiration for the development of osseointegrated prosthetic mounts. That is, prosthetics that mount directly to bone via a titanium implant instead of using a socket. The porous texture of antlers was used as a way to connect skin to the sides of the implant that protrudes from the body as a way of sealing it from the outside. You can look up ITAP prosthetic implants for more information.
There are no deers where I live and I always thought antlers were a sort of horn. I am *very* impressed.
I think this is why there's different words for them. Deer being common in England means the English picked up on horns and antlers being different when butchering them, I guess? Otoh it's all "horn" in Swedish and we've got plenty of deer. hm.
@@GustavSvard I live in Brazil. We have similar animals but they don't have antlers.
@@adilsongoliveira Fun fact: The primal deer did not have antlers, but they did have elongated canine teeth. Even today there are some extant deers / deer relatives with those vampire teeth but no or only very small antlers.
Antlers are one of those things in nature that seem to make be normal. I mean if a lizard can grow back a tail some antlers don’t seem far fetched. Until you learn enough about biology to realise hold on a minute that doesn’t add up. Same reason we have sonar, whales communicate by sound nothing anormal there but ask enough questions about how they do it and you can replicate it. I mean a sperm whale is so loud it can vibrate you to death if it wants to, how the hell can a bunch of organic matter do that 😂
@@adilsongoliveiraYou actually do have 2 deer types. The pampas deer and the marsh deer. I just looked up to be sure it's in the area and yes. The males also have antlers for them. Though it's still something most of the time not really talked about in school and if you aren't particularly interested in deer, you likely won't know these things. Like I never was taught even though I live in Europe and have seen plenty of deer in the wild, but up until someone mentioned that the antlers and horns are different I never thought about it. I was just like yeah they are horns that are re-grown for some reason.
I love the videos where it's pretty clear that Hank came in to the studio in a very specific mood
And antlers are tough enough that the points can pierce the heavy rubber of a tractor's tires. The two farms my father has next to ranches requires us to always keep an eye out for antlers in the fields and collecting them to prevent the antlers from going through 2 or more inches of rubber and causing flats.
"Laboratory dwellers" is up there with "science hippies" ❤
Science hippies break rabbits legs and cut out chunks of mouse skin? You know that’s what it took to see they could be healed, right? Maybe I’m not getting a joke?
@@chrisfleming701 It's a term zefrank uses in his videos. His videos are quite amusing and he means it endearingly.
man he’s looking so good again, so stoked he got better
So in order to get healed I have to become a deer furry ?
I hope so! Do we get a tail and hooves for feet and everything?
deer furry here, I get injured a lot and tend to heal fairly quickly, so there's probably some link :)
Dude, you could become a forest guardian or a superhero. It like x-men x beastars.
@@node_deer, See, proof everyone needs horns, a tail and hooves!
I fail to see the drawback.
SciShow makes such unhinged titles and thumbnails but always seems to deliver. It is never just click bait.
They definitely should make this therapy available to veterinary medicine to help animals who would benefit from a fast healing. Horses, for example.
Thus you can maybe save some lives that would otherwise be lost, while simultaneously gain knowledge about the therapy.
Antlers shedding is like deer being the disiduous tree of mammals. Both shed a massive part of themselves and regrow them another season. Just another way plants and animals share strange characteristics. Evolution is weird sometimes is my point.
"summer body"
I love it. Plant or animal, we all share one mother, Earth. That's how I think of convergent evolution.
Wouldn't it be something to see that on another planet too and see what we have in common in terms of evolution
Deciduous * but I got you 😉
@ryanstevens0398 thank you. Spelling is not my forte.
"Deer are nature's trees."
I tore my labrum in my shoulder, so a friend recommended deer antler velvet. I tried it and I’m not sure if it was placebo or not but my shoulder was like brand new after 3 months.
Um, wait. Like in your body or just like you slapped some deer velvet on your skin?
Unless you ate the velvet or somehow took it intravenously, it probably did nothing. Just placing it on your shoulder definitely would not do anything for an internal injury (apart from being extremely soft and comfy). If it had done something, you'd have recovered much faster: repairing a muscle tear shouldn't take more than a few months at the absolute max. It's a deceptive kind of injury, because it creates a crazy amount of pain for how trivial the injury is. But the reason for this is that your body *really* wants you to get the message that you must not move that muscle or else it won't recover properly.
That being said, it is at least possible the velvet has stem cells in it. It isn't normal skin: it's a lot more like an endometrial lining (the smell gives this away, the stuff smells like raw uncured sausage just as fresh menstrual blood does). As we now know, those are full of stem cells: so it's at least theoretically possible the same is true of antler velvet. If that is true, it would genuinely help with healing open wounds and burns. Antler velvet has been used in traditional medicine for a long time, and this wouldn't be the first time science has taken an aggregiously long time to discover why a folk remedy works. On the other hand, don't go around claiming that this is a surefire treatment for anything or collecting velvet strips to sell. You haven't run a controlled experiment, so you don't *know* anything for certain yet. This is all conjecture and hypothesis. And experimenting on yourself could be a tad dangerous as the stem cells might also cause cysts or warts to grow, or your body might reject the foreign cells in their raw form (i.e. You might have the symptoms of a severe allergic reaction which could be deadly if you are far away from a medical facility). So, you know #NotMedicalAdvice, #UseAtYourOwnRisk.
it was in liquid form@@solsystem1342
@@sophiejones3554eating the velvet would just denature the proteins in your stomach, so that is a no go as well. taking it "intravenously" would likely result in a huge immune response, which could also kill you. not recommended. So yeah, unless you literally got scientists to grow a stem cell line for you... this is nothing but BS and they are ripping you off.
I didn't realise antlers are organs🤯
It's a large part of the body, so yeah.
An organ is a large collection of cells that preforms a task. The bones hold you up, the skin covers you up, the lungs breathes, the heart pumps, the gallbladder does something, and antlers are battle weapons. So yes, they are organs.
Your skin is also an organ... you just don't think about it in that sense.
@@catherinebaldwin6580 I think the gallbladder excretes bile which helps to break down fats in your food.
@@johannageisel5390the bile is excreted by hepatocytes in the liver but the gallbladder does store it and release it into the digestive tract when digesting meals with a lot of fat.
Please add antlters to a jackrabbit. Make everyones dreams real
Exactly, they can make meat in a lab- give the bunny antlers!!
Fresh antlers have IGF-1 (Growth Factor stem cells) ; they will eventually get to the hardening phase and start to Ossify (Calcium comes in and makes it bony by replacing the fleshy blood vessels). I raise elk and it is all dependent on the right diet. If you have a poor diet it will hurt the animal's health visibly but antlers look okay or provide poor antler growth and the elk physically looks okay.
the Grinch was a really great dog owner. He was just looking out for his best friend.
What about cancer in these fast growing cells?
I assume that's the next research step.
Around the two minute mark, while Hank was saying it was so crazy how deer can replace their antlers so fast, I found myself thinking his hair is back 😅
Rhino poacher 1: dude all the rhinos are extinct. What we gonna do? We’re unemployed now.
Rhino poacher 2: hey I saw this RUclips video about dear antlers
Elephants are actually mating with others without tusks because of poachers. Supposedly we have many elephants that don't have tusks at all because of that. I wish ppl would stop buying and selling ivory products. Ivory Soap, on the other hand, go nuts.
Oh deer
I'm sure there's a similar line of thinking: can we ramp up the growth factors of other mammals' stem cells to similar effect? If we can pin down what makes antler stem cells different, we might be able to manipulate or even introduce that in other mammals' stem cells. (It's probably not just adding some magical growth factor liquid, or we would have done so already.)
I'd be a little leery of transplanting something that promotes rapid cell growth from one species to another. I assume the mice and bunnies who were the research subjects for these studies were killed soon afterwards, but it might be a good thing in future studies to keep them around for a while, to see if there are any long-term effects
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Yeah, the growth factor seems like a potential cancer risk
Eh, you need to take some risks if you want superpowers.
Hard to say how long they were allowed to live, some could still be alive for all we know. Let’s not forget researchers first broke their legs and cut out chunks of skin to see if they could heal them. I love science but sometimes it makes me sick.
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Glad to see you back at it on SciShow again Hank!
Hank, where did they get rabbits with broken femurs? Where did they get them from Hank?
Out of my uncle's stew pot.
Come here and lemme tell you, Lennie.
The scientists probably broke those femurs. I hope the bunnies got pain killers or anesthesia at least.
This is why I'm subscribed, that's absolutely awesome
Fascinating! I’m legitimately a smarter human because of Hank. 🦌❤
Reminds me of Scrooged. Where Bill Murray told the stage hands to staple antlers on the little mice.
Many thanks to patreons!
Are there any side effects in the mice studies? Like increased risk for bone cancer or something similar? Quickly multiplying foreign cells in a body sounds as it may come attached with other issues as well.
Wait we can make jackalopes??? For real, that's amazing all in its self and all it would take is some antler stem cells.
How did this not make the top news stories?! INCREDIBLE
3:04 “Getting some mice” is more how to be a biologist 101
:)
I can’t believe they had the option to use these cells in both mice and rabbits, and decided to give mice antlers instead of literally making a jackalope.
I love learning about insane new science like this! It's always so exciting to dream of the possibilities things like this could unlock.
One the greatest of your videos I've seen!!
Lookin' good, Hank. Happy for you.
That's so incredibly bizzare and cool
When this comes out we must call growing new bones "boning"
I wonder if Stem cells and CRISPR might work together on this?
I wish they would figure out the whole blood cancer issue when dealing with certain advanced genetic therapies.
This sounds like a fast track to cancer in more complex organs
It's like all those psoriasis Rx drugs that will cause your body to be more prone to tuberculosis infections.
Scary thought
explain "complex" here
Not sure if Hank or the script itself (or maybe both!) but this episode is so good. Exemplary SciShow!!
I've long thought deer would be perfect for an episode of Bizarre Beasts because they're SUPER WEIRD. Like, growing such an expensive structure on their heads every year is such a wild thing to do. And I've seen their antlers described as basically being weaponized bone cancer because of how crazy fast they grow. Yet we all consider them normal because they're a common animal in many places. Having a SciShow episode about them is good too. Though I would still love to see a BB episode about deer because I'd love a neat deer pin.
This is amazing 💯
Adhesive bandages! LOL
Ethics. Schmethics. When do I get my antlers!!!
I have seen jack-a-lops, now I have seen my first mouse-a-lop.
This could potentially help with muscle tears. Our bone already regrows better than it is originally but once your tendon or muscle tears it is really difficult to reattach then this could potentially used as glue to reattach these structures.
This also can be used for growing new organs in labatory fast.
Me, a science teacher, literally yesterday: "What's something interesting I can use to introduce the idea of cell signaling *besides* cancer?"
SciShow: *lands on my Subscriptions page like Ironman*
as cool as this is it further illustrates how vital it is to keep our ecosystems healthy. who knows what other animals and plants can help us down the road!
who knows what plants and animals WE could help down the road.
@@thomasneal9291 true!
A higher concentration of growth factor causes faster growth. Who would've guessed 😅
That’s the cool thing about science. You could propose this all day, but until it is confirmed and repeated it’s just a hypothesis!
It's probably a lot more complex than just growth factors. Several tissue types need to regrow in a coordinated manner and they do that faster than organs grow during childhood.
that thumbnail is perfection! ♥ so cute
Deer are so underrated - Alastor agrees
The HD TV disagrees
The closest I can think of, regarding the shedding and regrowth of an entire organ, is the female's regular menstruation, where the endometrium lining comes out, and is replaced in the next cycle. It is not the entire organ, but it's a big part of one.
Now I want to see what a kangaroo looks like with antlers, since they're basically deer that got buff
Futuristic open world scifi game be like:
Deer-mice.
Also, human -cyborgs- deerborgs.
Deerborgs 😂😂😂
Your thumbnail reminded me of the scene in Scrooged where Bill Murray asks the set crew guy about the antlers not staying on the mouse: "Can't you just staple them on?"
That is boss 💯🔥💯 deers are amazing.
I've always been impressed by how fast antlers grow on deer. If you didn't know better, just looking at them, you'd think they've had those same antlers their entire life and not just in the past few months.
We would have to have a looknat how this would affect displaced fractures if not set properly... could cause more issues if the bone were to set out of place and heal/ harden too fast requiring surgery and resetting
Just finished watching Neflix's Sweet Tooth. Very topical
michael cole would like to hear about this
Can't wait till body modifiers latch on to this one!
I think this is awesome, but when I heard “increased growth factor” the first thing I thought of was cancer. It’s fine for antlers to get wonky since they fall off every year, maybe not so much our bones and skin.
insane! 😮
"The doctor gave me a pill, and I grew a new kidney!"
1. Lost an arm to industrial accident.
2. Doctor transplant deer stem cell to shoulder.
3. Now you have antler in place of your arm.
4. Doctor be, "Good enough."
Serious question that we should ask before proceeding. What are the long term effects of introducing these stem cells?
that's why they keep testing this entire thing, you know
I've had some crappy jobs, but rabbit-leg-breaker has to be worse than all of them combined
"Why the heck are deer so good at healing?!"
_takes a long bong rip_ "I dunno man, wanna like, put some antlers on some mice and see what happens?"
I use the preworkout brand bucked up and along with the punny name their logo is a deer and i believe in the ingredients list it has deer antler stuff in there. Idk exactly what it does or is supposed to do but its no surprise since i know in cultures and often in video games its depicted as having crazy medicinal properties
As long as no antlers grow on your own head.
trust me that is NOT a dealbreaker
Not a full rack but a couple of pronghorns could be kind of cute on a lot of girls!
I think, I heard that some tribes and even Chinese medicine has "crunched dear antlers" as supreme bandage recipe. Don't really think it do much, but it might just be forgotten knowledge all along.
Hanks like "welp if this cancer is gone I AM GOING TO GROW SO MUCH HAIR"
He had to shed his hair in order to grow it anew, just like deer antlers.
This just reminds me of how certain kinds of alternative medicine use animal parts in their treatment. I want to say i've actually heard of powdered antler (along with other ingredients) can be applied to a prepared wound and be expected to heal faster. Now i don't think it's antler cells just amazingly working with human biology because more then likely the mixture has some kind of antibiotic effect or an ability to keep out other contaminates that lets the body do it's thing, but it's still interesting to think about.
Hey Hank. Doubt you in particular will read this here but your hair looks great. Glad to see you in remission
Deer make recovering from uncontrolled cellular growth look easy!
I'm curious if there will end up being any downsides to wounds that are healed more quickly. Like, are they healed just as well as a slower process or is it a bit of a rush job that's not as well put together? How will a bone healed with super speedy deer cells hold up long term? Deer only need to keep their antlers for a year before they start on a fresh new set so I could see it turning out that way. Or is it that as long as an animal is providing their body with enough energy to heal up that quick that it will turn out just as good? These are just the questions that immediately popped into my head thinking about as future medicine. I'm excited to see what scientists learn about it as more research is done!
As soon as I saw the picture of a mouse with antlers, I immediately thought of the jackalope! 😂
I can't wait for the day when I can have my own self-grown antlers on my head. I'm abnormally obsessed and in love with how antlers look. I would want them on my head. Please scientists figure out how that could be possible
the unintended consequence of this video is now it makes me think i can have little antlers and i'd think that would be kinda cute
These are literally questions I myself all the time, I just don't have the knowledge or means to figure it out. I want to be a damn scientist so bad
The implications are huge here.. Researchers are already investigating the effect of changes to the various growth factors in stem cells. Its a seriously interesting new area of study!
Another deciduous organ would be the endometrium, but it doesn't have bone and such.
Jackalopes...with healing factors... If I can get the full "anthropomorphic fur, paws and tail" aesthetic to go with it, sign me up!
The study testing broken bone healing was totally done in rabbits, not mice, because someone wanted to "accidentially" make a jackalope.
The placenta is an organ that lots of mammals make and regenerate from scratch. Including humans!
I immediately thought of the placenta, too. I wonder what the difference is that they didn't mention it...
It seems that the placenta technically isn't the mother's organ, but rather belongs to the baby, as the placenta and the foetus share the same DNA.
@@capt.cloudsworth4924 that is fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Imagine how nice it must feel to lose all that weight in your head each year
Facinating! Can we grow more teeth?
More teeth? Not regrow teeth, but just get an entire extra row of teeth? You'd do better using shark DNA for that.
I never thought mouse antlers would be awesome!
I wonder how or if this would help those with bone density issues