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Lab-grown penises developed by scientists and now 'ready for human tests'

 

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.

 

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Wondering if they'll be using these to help guys who get their fingers blown off?

A little Viagra, and you'll be playing the piano as good as ever?

 

They are well on the way to prosthetics with feel and normal function ,not grown yet....but give them time

On a more serious note,

Are we developing the ability to grow, and attach, all body parts? Or did we decide that the first one we'd do, would be the penis?

 

organs mainly so far, and ears,noses ect....far less complex

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On a more serious note,

Are we developing the ability to grow, and attach, all body parts? Or did we decide that the first one we'd do, would be the penis?

 

Well, the same professor that is cited in this article talks about other organs as well, here he is discussing making kidneys:

 

https://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney

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