[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12666171[/url]
[quote]The world's first tissue-engineered urinary tubes or urethras, grown in the lab using patients' own cells, have been hailed a success by medical experts.
US surgeons have used the lab-grown tubes to treat five Mexican boys with damaged urinary tracts.
They told the Lancet that all of the boys are now fit and that the grafts have taken and repaired the defects.
The same team has already managed to grow new bladders for patients.
Professor Anthony Atala and colleagues are currently working to engineer more than 30 different replacement tissues and organs.
He is director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The first step in engineering the replacement urethras was taking a small sample of cells from the bladder of each of the boys.
Aged 10 to 14, the boys had suffered injuries in accidents.
[b]Lab grown[/b]
From these samples, the scientists isolated the cells they would need to grow the new structure that expels urine from the bladder.
These cells, needed to make the muscle, lining and supportive tissue, were nurtured and multiplied in the lab for weeks until they were plentiful enough for the job.
They were then placed onto a biodegradable mesh that was shaped into a tube and sized to be a perfect fit for the patient.
After a week of incubation to allow the cells to take to the mesh, the lab-grown grafts were surgically transplanted into the patients.
Six years on the grafts are still doing well, looking and functioning exactly like a normal urethra in the five boys who are now entering their teens.
Without this revolutionary treatment they boys would have required an artificial graft that has up to a 50% chance of failure, or would have faced a life of probably incontinence and repeated urine infections.
Professor Chris Mason, an expert on regenerative medicine at University College London, said: "Totally grown in the laboratory, these urethras, living tubes which convey urine from the bladder, highlight the power of cell-based therapies.
"When an organ or tissue is irreparably damaged or traumatically destroyed, no amount of drugs or mechanical devices will restore the patient back to normal. If the goal is cure, then cell-based therapies are the answer.
"Using living cells as 'medicines' is a major step-change in clinical practice. Cell-based therapies complement drugs and devices by aiming to cure the large unmet medical needs of our generation, including blindness, diabetes, heart failure, Parkinson's disease and stroke."[/quote]
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I tell you what.
They'll be growing themselves bigger dongs next. :rolleyes:
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Eek! A Penis!
Spares! :buddy:
I want 8 penises. OCTO-DONG!
[QUOTE=8BitLord;28510758]I want 8 penises. OCTO-DONG![/QUOTE]
Getting a boner would cause you to pass out.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;28510807]Getting a boner would cause you to pass out.[/QUOTE]
That's the point.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;28510807]Getting a boner would cause you to pass out.[/QUOTE]
But I would be able to jerk off 8 times more efficiently !
[QUOTE=8BitLord;28510832]That's the point.[/QUOTE]
I would've said the point is that you could pleasure an inordinate amount of women at once but whatever floats your boat.
[QUOTE=Satane;28510959]I like how they used little mexican boys as guinea pigs.[/QUOTE]
The correct term is Mexican piglet :eng101:
Of all the things possible they decide to make a urethra.
I guess scientists get really bothered by the size of their nerd dicks.
Them boys ain't right.
And how the hell were their Urethra's damaged in the first place?
They're too young to have had kidney stones unless they've been living in a unusually unhealthy conditions.
urethra infections are very common
without treatment, they can do some damage.
Bobby, fetch me my artificial urethra, I'm about to kick someone's ass I tell you what
Read it as 'world's [b]finest[/b] tissue-engineered urethra hailed success.'
"This is clearly the superior urethra."
remember that video of the 'stem cell gun' that completely and correctly grows back skin within two hours after a second degree burn
what if you could just inject something in someones dick to repair it
holy shit
Does this mean we can grow vaginas on people's foreheads?
Can they grow a whole new penis and attach it to the top of my head?
[editline]9th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Coffee;28512261]Does this mean we can grow vaginas on people's foreheads?[/QUOTE]
A whole new meaning for skull fuck.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;28512277] A whole new meaning for skull fuck.[/QUOTE]
Or you could grow an arse on someone's face.
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[QUOTE=Van-man;28511729]And how the hell were their Urethra's damaged in the first place?
They're too young to have had kidney stones unless they've been living in a unusually unhealthy conditions.[/QUOTE]
Well Mexico isn't exactly a really upscale place.
Stem cell organ growing wins again!
How long until they start developing ones that are superior, both in durability and in "hydraulics"?
[QUOTE=ratman_122;28512317]Well Mexico isn't exactly a really upscale place.[/QUOTE]
That, or you could read the article and see that they were all hurt in accidents, not infections. Where did the bad reading rating go?
Gross
[QUOTE=Coffee;28512306]Or you could grow an arse on someone's face.
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Brings a new meaning to asshat.
[QUOTE=8BitLord;28510758]I want 8 penises. OCTO-DONG![/QUOTE]
For making ninesomes a valid option.
That's... actually pretty awesome. I heard there's a shitload problems with the urethra in men.
It does seem like a painful, long process, but this is actually a breakthrough.
This is just taking the piss.
Can't wait for the stress tests. You know, sticking needles in there, giving it papercuts, smashing it with hammers...
I want to grow enough to make a wig out of urethrae
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