So, how does this help human beings heal from wounds and regrow limbs and organs like Deadpool or Wolverine? For starters, human beings also exhibit early growth response, but nowhere near the level needed to trigger our own DNA into programming cells for mass regeneration.
What makes the breakthrough so promising is that the gene which 'turned the whole house dark' was found in the majority of the worms' genome typically seen as useless, or 'junk' DNA.
The worms in question, like lizards, and several forms of marine life are able to passively regenerate their entire bodies perfectly, while human beings show potential And if their junk DNA--previously thought useless since it doesn't do the gentic coding itself--holds the key to turning that healing factor on or off, the question is clear: can scientists learn how to unlock the same cascade of genes in humans?
Our healing factor 'houses' may be dark for now, but could it be just as simple as flipping a switch back on? It might sound like science fiction or comic book fantasy, but it offers an even simpler, scientifically reasonable explanation for Wolverine's ability. In short, his genetic mutation could be as simple as being born with that switch flipped, already set to the 'on' position.
Who knows, in a decade or two Marvel Comics may be forced to tweak Wolverine's official power. Not a pretty sight. The definition of "healing" is kind of vague, and Wolverine's body takes a broad view of it. For instance, the normal process of aging is something his healing factor doesn't take kindly to. What we think of as growing old is really a gradual breakdown of the cells, and his healing factor grows cells more quickly, making Wolverine someone who ages very slowly.
No one really knows how long his healing factor will let him live or when he will start to show his age. X, who's younger than him and without his adamantium skeleton, claims she heals faster than him. Another area where Wolverine's healing factor has moved into is his memory Wolverine has had a hard life, from his childhood where he watched his father murdered in front of him, all the way up to being sent to Hell by a group of disgruntled relatives of his victims called the Red Right Hand in 's "Wolverine" 1 Jason Aaron, Renato Guedes.
Along the way, every woman he's ever loved has either died or been murdered, and he's undergone countless experimentation and torture. Up until the crossover event "House of M," Wolverine didn't remember most of it, partly because the Weapon X organization erased his memory.
It was also revealed in 's "Wolverine" Frank Tieri, Sean Chen that his healing factor considered his bad memories a form of injury and caused amnesia to protect him from them. It's pretty crazy to think his own body looked at his life and said, "Yeah, he's better off without that.
Another thing that Wolverine is immune to thanks to his healing factor is poison. His healing factor protects Wolverine from poisons that would kill a normal human being. Her father challenged him to a duel with practice swords to humiliate him and make Mariko reject him. Just to make sure, before the fight, Shingen had Wolverine hit with a poisoned shuriken that would have killed a normal person many times over. The poison only weakened Wolverine, enough to slow his reflexes and make him lose the fight.
His healing factor also keeps him from getting knocked out by drugs or even getting drunk, since alcohol is technically a poison, but that doesn't stop Wolverine. He drinks massive amounts of alcohol that would kill a normal human just to get a slight buzz on. Another benefit of his healing factor is that Wolverine is protected from psychic attacks.
His healing factor seems to think of psychic powers as a physical threat like any other, so Wolverine has found what he calls "mental scar tissue" from all of the horrible things that have happened to him over the course of his life. That, plus some really strong mental shields put in his mind by Professor Xavier, mean anyone who tries to control or read his mind is out of luck. The combination of his healing factor and shields mean Wolverine's mind stands up to telepathic assault and probing.
That comes in handy, because the X-Men fight a surprisingly large number of telepathic supervillains. While the other X-Men are getting their brains scrambled, Wolverine keeps slicing. His brain is as strong as his bones. One other way his healing factor protects him is from getting worn out in battle. On top of that, the genome itself is much larger than originally estimated clocking in at about an order of magnitude larger than our own human genome.
This complicates sequencing efforts. And it will be pretty challenging to actually get there. We are though, well on our way to better understanding and improving healing by using low-level laser light. The really intriguing thing about this technology—the power behind the procedure—is that it is simple. No gamma rays, x-rays, or some kind of other deadly-sounding comic book fictional energy rays are needed. It uses the energy in the photons that are parts of the visible spectrum of light and helps activate cellular processes to heal faster.
The basic concept is that low level laser light penetrates mitochondria—our cellular powerhouses—deep within the injured tissues.
The photons interact with the enzyme cytochrome C oxidase and this energy is then converted to chemical energy that our cells can use—ATP. The outcome is increased tissue blood flow and energy supply.
Since the biggest issue with healing is a lack of blood flow in the tissue that you are hoping will heal, anything that can be done to increase blood flow will help with healing. So far this approach of using light to help accelerate healing has been used in many different tissues. These have applications that range literally from head to toe and are captured in the Figure below. More are currently being investigated, along with attempts to refine the dosage time and intensity most notably needed for a given tissue.
But would Wolverine be able to find devices to help him heal? So it could be that Logan never fully recovered from the effects of that drain. In that movie, Logan travels back to and alters history in order to prevent mutants from being wiped out in the future. It seems entirely possible, and probably likely, that Logan never lost his healing powers to Yashida in the altered timeline.
So why is Logan unable to heal himself? But it fits much better with the film that the thing killing Logan is, simply, being Wolverine. They also make up the cast of the best superhero movie yet made. Here's the 27 most important characters gracing the final story of Hugh Jackman's take on the Wolverine, ranked.
Mohawk Reaver Krzysztof Soszynski Seems this nameless member of the Reavers mercenary band was not properly briefed on what he'd be dealing with today. As a result, Laura cuts his head off, carries it outside, and offers it back to Pierce in the movie's most bad-ass moment. So he's useful for supplying Laura with awesome material, but not much else. The guys stripping Logan's car Logan's first victims of the movie.
These guys had it coming when they responded to a friendly limo driver politely asking them not to steal his wheels with a shotgun blast.
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