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Organs would be given to men with congenital abnormalities, or those who have undergone radical surgery for cancer or suffered trauma to the area
Engineered penises now being tested for 'safety, function and durability'
Created by team that implanted lab-grown vaginas into women this year
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originally posted by: Stormdancer777
I guess No one want to touch this topic with a ten foot pole?
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Scientists have developed lab-grown penises to help men who have congenital abnormalities or suffered a traumatic injuries, the Observer has reported.
The engineered penises were developed by researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina, USA, and are currently awaiting approval to be tested on humans.
The work is funded by the US Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which hopes to use the technology to help soldiers with battlefield injuries. Professor Anthony Atala, director of the institute, told the Observer the target is to get the organs into patients with injuries or congenital abnormalities. The penises would be grown using a patient's own cells to avoid the risk of immunological rejection after organ transplantation.
Atala previously led a successful project engineering penises for rabbits in 2008. The previous work on rabbits showed that once the tissue was there the body recognises it as its own.
To make the structure of the penis, a donor penis is washed with detergent to remove the donor's cells.
A fortnight later, all that is left is just a collagen scaffold of the penis, which the cultured cells from the patient are added to.
originally posted by: PhoenixOD
Well the size would depend on the donor penis that is used for procedure.
To make the structure of the penis, a donor penis is washed with detergent to remove the donor's cells.
A fortnight later, all that is left is just a collagen scaffold of the penis, which the cultured cells from the patient are added to.
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
originally posted by: Bhadhidar
Durability?!?
How would you test ..?
OH!!!!
The Carpel Tunnel claims for Worker's Comp among the "durability" testers are going to truly epic.
how would you test it for durability?