Scientists Ready To Test Lab-Grown Penises On Men
Soon, scientists could test penises on men which are grown in laboratories. Technology is being developed to help people with congenital abnormalities, or who have undergone surgery for aggressive cancer or suffered traumatic injury, The Guardian reports.
Researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability. They hope to receive approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and to move to human testing within five years.
Professor Anthony Atala, director of the institute, oversaw the team’s successful engineering of penises for rabbits in 2008. “The rabbit studies were very encouraging,” he said, “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.”
The penises would be grown using a patient’s own cells to avoid the high risk of immunological rejection after organ transplantation from another individual. Cells taken from the remainder of the patient’s penis would be grown in culture for four to six weeks.
For the structure, they wash a donor penis in a mild detergent to remove all donor cells. After two weeks a collagen scaffold of the penis is left, on to which they seed the patient’s cultured cells – smooth muscle cells first, then endothelial cells, which line the blood vessels. Because the method uses a patient’s own penis-specific cells, the technology will not be suitable for female-to-male sex reassignment surgery.
Because science rocks.
H/T: LL’s own @TiredOfTea with thanks.
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By: Anomaly100
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 15:25
And republicans will make sure your insurance covers the procedure while still denying BC to women.
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 15:25
And republicans will make sure your insurance covers the procedure while still denying BC to women.
Yenta October 5th, 2014 at 15:46
“…assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability.” I would think the functional aspect would be key…?!! Why no information on that?
And of course, it’s top priority because it’s for MEN.
Bunya October 5th, 2014 at 21:51
You betcha! And I’ll be when it becomes available, it will be covered by insurance and medicare. Women have to jump through hoops for contraceptive coverage or have to pay out of pocket, but dirty old men in need of a 4-hour boner? Government subsidized help is just a phone call away.
Yenta October 5th, 2014 at 15:46
“…assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability.” I would think the functional aspect would be key…?!! Why no information on that?
And of course, it’s top priority because it’s for MEN.
Bunya October 5th, 2014 at 21:51
You betcha! And I’ll be when it becomes available, it will be covered by insurance and medicare. Women have to jump through hoops for contraceptive coverage or have to pay out of pocket, but dirty old men in need of a 4-hour boner? Government subsidized help is just a phone call away.
Jake October 5th, 2014 at 15:47
This is what gun owners across the land have been yearning for.
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 15:53
Ya think John Boehner will request one for his other hand?
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 15:53
Ya think John Boehner will request one for his other hand?
StoneyCurtisll October 5th, 2014 at 16:47
Lab grown penis’s aside…
What ticks me off is that they want 10 US dollars to cut a paragraph from this page..
Even if I want to paste it here on this site.
I guess everyone needs to make a buck…:)
mea_mark October 5th, 2014 at 17:04
Probably has something to do with the original article. You can try cut and paste a half paragraph at a time to get around it.
StoneyCurtisll October 5th, 2014 at 17:43
My mistake…
Thanks.. I think I have it figured out now…:)
StoneyCurtisll October 5th, 2014 at 16:47
Lab grown penis’s aside…
What ticks me off is that they want 10 US dollars to cut a paragraph from this page..
Even if I want to paste it here on this site.
I guess everyone needs to make a buck…:)
mea_mark October 5th, 2014 at 17:04
Probably has something to do with the original article. You can try cut and paste a half paragraph at a time to get around it.
StoneyCurtisll October 5th, 2014 at 17:43
My mistake…
Thanks.. I think I have it figured out now…:)
No way out October 5th, 2014 at 16:54
Start with tea bagger men
No way out October 5th, 2014 at 16:54
Start with tea bagger men
Rusty Shackleford October 5th, 2014 at 17:05
Aaaaand poof, there goes my hype.
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 17:17
I was kinda surprised to see that, I thought stem cells would grow to be what ever you wanted them to become. Also all humans start out female the first 6 weeks, at least that’s what I read as to why men have nipples. IDK
Rusty Shackleford October 5th, 2014 at 17:05
Aaaaand poof, there goes my hype.
edmeyer_able October 5th, 2014 at 17:17
I was kinda surprised to see that, I thought stem cells would grow to be what ever you wanted them to become. Also all humans start out female the first 6 weeks, at least that’s what I read as to why men have nipples. IDK
crc3 October 5th, 2014 at 18:00
Does one size fit all?
crc3 October 5th, 2014 at 18:00
Does one size fit all?
Chinese Democracy October 5th, 2014 at 18:12
Id like a spare
Chinese Democracy October 5th, 2014 at 18:12
Id like a spare
mmaynard119 October 5th, 2014 at 19:54
I wonder where they got the prototype?
mmaynard119 October 5th, 2014 at 19:54
I wonder where they got the prototype?
Tammy Minton Haley October 5th, 2014 at 21:25
okay…i was all ready to go total-snarkocalypse on this one–the jokes write themselves, amirite, girls?
then, i read…”penis cancer”…damn…