Male Appendage Tissue Engineering

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:24:29 MDT

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    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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