From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:24:29 MDT
I had this post earlier, but suspect, not that my moniker iniated kill-files
(which is ok by me) but that the title Penis may have wound up getting nuked,
because of the fine work of Faux sexual potency peddlers, flooding our
emails.
C'mon People! This is a very transhumanist-Extropian accomplishment or step.
What are you looking at? Its in Revelations, People! ( 8-| ] or New
Scientist, same thing.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993672
Tissue engineers grow penis - with feeling
17:00 29 April 03 NewScientist.com news service
Tissue engineers who recently demonstrated penis replacement in animals have
now
added a vital missing component - nerve cells.
"The nerve cells are very important - they are responsible for all the
sensory
function," says Anthony Atala, at Boston Children's Hospital. "In order to do
complete [penile] replacements we need to make sure all of the parts are
there,
including the nerves."
In September 2002, Atala and his colleagues replaced missing chunks of penis
in
live rabbits with tissues grown in the lab. But the replacement penile
tissues
consisted only of muscle and endothelial cells, which were inserted alongside
intact nerve cells. Their new work is the first time that penile nerve tissue
has been regenerated.
"This is exciting and extends their work logically in several directions,"
says
reconstructive surgeon Hunter Wessells of the University of Washington School
of
Medicine in Seattle.
The regeneration of nerves is an important step towards one day creating
engineered replacement penile tissue for men who have lost parts of the penis
following prostate cancer surgery or an accident, or to enhance the genitals
of
children born with abnormalities.
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