The big deal isn't the fact that it exists. It's that we start to identify it, understand it, and eventually harness it.

The big deal with penicillin wasn't that it exists in nature. It's that we were able to figure out how to harness it.

The question isn’t whether or not regeneration is a thing (cell themselves die and spawn a new), but how, where, why… all the actual details of a complete understanding.

And even with regeneration what’s the price paid in telomere shortening? Granted I’d rather regenerate and live healthy at the cost of a few years of extra life with barely usable lungs.

> And even with regeneration what’s the price paid in telomere shortening?

Regeneration isn't exactly an unusual phenomenon. Your skin does it all the time, but even that is nothing compared to the inside of your mouth.