The Talmud asks, "What is the Biblical source for "Techiyat HaMetim?" And the somewhat enigmatic answer given is "Kal VaChomer MiChitah;" namely, that it follows by an "a fortiori" - type act of logic (that is, reasoning from a minor premise to a major premise) from the observable fact, assumed by the Bible when it refers to wheat, that wheat reproduces every year. One basis of this idea seems to be that just as the seed needs to disintegrate and decompose in order to produce new life, so does the human body. The reasoning seems to be, "if wheat can do it, certainly so can a human being!?"
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/techiyat.htm
Authorities in Mexico say a newborn baby girl declared dead by doctors revived inside her coffin during her wake.
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Two research reports published Friday offer novel approaches to the age-old dream of regenerating the body from its own cells.
...In the first of the two new approaches, a research group at Stanford University led by Helen M. Blau, Jason H. Pomerantz and Kostandin V. Pajcini has taken a possible first step toward unlocking the human ability to regenerate. By inactivating two genes that work to suppress tumors, they got mouse muscle cells to revert to a younger state, start dividing and help repair tissue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/science/06cell.html?_r=1&hp
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