Deadpool's healing factor in real life. Is it possible?(Secrets of science series#6)
Channel: Secrets of science
Date: 2018-05-03

Deadpool's healing factor in real life. Is it possible?
The main character in the 'Deadpool' movie amazes us with his ability to regenerate. He is shot, gets blown up, set on fire, he voluntarily loses limbs. But in a few hours, Deadpool is completely unharmed. Is something like this possible in real life?
Hydra, who is able to rebuild 1/200 part of her body and move on, has the fastest and most perfect ability to regenerate in nature. The same talent has a tapeworm. And from one arm of the starfish can be reborn an entirely new starfish. Spiders are also able to regrow lost legs.
The oncologists of the Wistar Institute say that the silencing a single human gene can give him the ability to regrow the lost body parts. It is about the p21gene: already in 1996, the experiments were performed on rats. Animals with inactive p21 gene regrew holes in their ears with no scars in 2 weeks.
Scientists promise that if they can test this theory on humans and develop a way to temporarily 'switch off' this gene, it is likely that doctors will be able to 'grow' the lost limbs of patients. However, we have to be careful with experiments, because the gene suppresses cancer cells growth.
But of course Deadpool's superpowers are fiction, but if scientists succeed, man will be able to find the eternal youth and immortality.