Wafanye research wasaidie Octogenarians to grow new organs hizo zingine zikififia.
cruel and below the belt, literally…
@gashwin, this may have been in jest but research along these lines is on-going. See this link.
Scientists developing lab-grown penis for transplant - CBS News
For the Anti-click movement, here is the article.
Scientists developing lab-grown
penis for transplant
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Oct 9, 2014 2:11 PM EDT
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Wake Forest Institute for
Regenerative Medicine
Lab-grown penises could one day
grace the groins of men who have
congenital problems, complications
from cancer or traumatic injuries.
Research into growing the organs in
a lab is still in the experimental
stages at the Wake Forest Institute
for Regenerative Medicine in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the
Guardian reported . The researchers
said they could test the organs in
people by 2019 if they gain Food and
Drug Administration approval to do
so.
“Our target is to get the organs into
patients with injuries or congenital
abnormalities,” institute director Dr.
Anthony Atala told the Guardian.
Soldiers injured during combat could
be among those who benefit, and the
U.S. Armed Forces Institute of
Regenerative Medicine is providing
money for the study. [ 8 Wild Facts
About the Penis ]
This research project is one of many
that researchers have tried over the
years.
“There have been many attempts to
re-create or reproduce a penis, owing
to the many men who have lost their
penis at some point in time,” Dr.
Andrew Kramer, a urologist at the
University of Maryland Medical
Center, told Live Science in an email.
It’s difficult to make an organ that
can both void urine and experience
the male sexual and neurological
response, Kramer said. “If [those
functions are] not re-created, the
engineered organ would not be
successful.”
“If anyone can engineer an organ,
such as a penis, Dr. Atala will,” said
Kramer, who is not involved in the
project.
Atala’s research showed some
success in 2008 when the institute
engineered penises for rabbits . “The
rabbit studies were very
encouraging,” Atala told the
Guardian, “but to get approval for
humans we need all the safety and
quality assurance data, we need to
show that the materials aren’t toxic,
and we have to spell out the
manufacturing process, step by
step.”
To create organs for humans, the
researchers plan to create penises
with the patient’s own cells, which
could sidestep immunological
rejection, Atala said.
To begin, researchers would grow
cells from the patients’ existing
genitals in the lab for four to six
weeks.
Getting the right shape requires a
penis donated from a deceased man.
The donor organ would be washed of
its own cells by soaking in a mild
detergent of enzymes, to reduce the
chances of rejection by the new host.
That would then provide researchers
with a scaffold . The researchers then
plan to spread the patient’s cultured
cells on this scaffold, starting with
smooth muscle cells and then adding
the endothelial cells that line blood
vessels, the Guardian reported.
“At Maryland, we are working on
transplanting a penis,” Kramer said.
“Ultimately someone will be able to
do this and offer hope to men who
have lost their penis, but the
technology and science today is
simply not there yet, though this is
promising.”
Chinese doctors successfully
transplanted a penis in 2006.
However, the man, a 44-year-old
who lost his penis in an accident,
later asked for the transplanted penis
to be removed, partially because his
wife found it psychologically difficult.
Another option for men is for doctors
to create a new penis with a flap of
tissue from their forearm or thigh,
Kramer said. These patients need to
use a prosthetic for sexual function
– either a rigid rod that creates an
always-erect penis, or one that has a
pump that the individual can inflate
at will.
The human penis is the latest, but
hardly the first organ Atala and his
colleagues have tried to produce.
The team created and transplanted
the first human bladder in 1999, the
first urethra in 2004 and the first
vagina in 2005 , the Guardian
reported.
great read doc
No we cannot assume that. Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (key word: Benign), often abbreviated as BPH, is non-cancerous and therefore quite different from prostate cancer.
What shit do they smoke in Dominican Rep. I want to start supplying to Kijiji
Fetuses are originally female and if male hormones fail for XY, they just remain like female.
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