#limb loss

[cripplesomethingbeautiful]

John Rosser

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

A *liiiitle* late to the party, but not as late as the finished piece will be: corpses of an adult Nanotyrannus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus washed together after a flood, similar in size but anatomically distinct. Very much a work in progress, lmk if anything looks especially disproportionate.

Photopea, 2025 (and onward)

[kentipaws]

more lesbians

[bpod-bpod]

Window of Regeneration

Mice can regenerate limbs... well, as embryos half-way through their 20-day gestation they can reform the recently acquired limb buds if they're amputated. But only two days later as day-12 embryos the ability is lost. Using comparative transcriptomics (studying the active genes in cell populations) and cell lineage tracing in developing mice embryos, researchers have found a population of neural crest (a specific region early in embryo formation)–derived cells that bear the molecular markers Wnt1 and Foxd3 which are specifically associated with the transient regeneration phase in the embryo. These findings bring insights for repairing tissue after injury or degeneration

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Béryl Laplace-Builhé, Gautier Tejedor and Jholy De La Cruz, and colleagues

Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies, University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), December 2025

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[yungfenn]

[panimoonchild]

Russian obsession is abduction, hatred, and re-education of our kids

How 17-year-old Ukrainian Valeriia escaped a Russian re-education camp

17-year-old Ukrainian Valeriia was abducted to a Russian re-education camp in Crimea. She tells Euronews how she made it back to Ukraine on

Mykhailo from the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Yana is from Donetsk region. They met yesterday in Lviv at the opening of the Prosthetics Center. They have different stories of amputations, but equally unbreakable willpower. These children do not stop. They live their new lives. This is what we have to work for!

Our kids find unity in the shared trauma. I hope they stay kids longer but unfortunately, Russia takes away that opportunity from them. Make Russia pay!

[skylar-jay]

Everyone always seems to think that if I could, I would choose to get my leg back

But here's the thing:

I have NEVER known what's it's like to have two flesh legs. All I've known is a prosthetic

People often look sad when I say this, and say stuff like "oh I'm so sorry" or "I'm sure you'll be able to know in the afterlife" (that second one in particular makes my blood boil)

I don't think that!!! I think it's awesome I got to grow up with a prosthetic!! I got to learn how to walk in it, I got to make friends with the doctors and surgeons that worked in the children's hospital I went to! I knew all my childhood prosthetic engineers by name! And I was always happy to see them!!!

And if there is an afterlife, and if we do end up with perfect bodies, I hope my perfect body includes my missing limb and a prosthetic of my choice. Otherwise? I don't want it.

My amputation and my prosthetic are part of who I am! The experiences I grew up with shaped me, and without that first amputation I don't think I would be the same person.

No, it's not sad that I never learned how to walk on two flesh legs. Don't pity me because I'm different. Celebrate with me, because my difference is what made me :)