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Rabbits' Male Members Grown In Labs
knobbie writes "The CBC reports in this article that, "Tissue engineers have successfully replaced rabbits' penises with segments grown in the lab from the creatures' own cells.""
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of a twelve inch "pianist" is at hand!
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
You accidently put the einstein icon where there should have been a foot. Please correct...
-Sean
My question is...why the penis?
Aren't there a whole number of organs they could have "experimented" with? What of livers, hearts even limbs?
what's up with all the penis news lately? Newscientist.com has an article on the discovery of the oldest fossilized penises here. Must be a slow news week :-/
also, they found a fossilzed pile of vomit. check out the story here.
but will another 4" be enough... ;)
well someone was gonna say it eh?
A blog I run for the wealth
...will take advantage of this.
BTW, does anybody have the phone number of the researchers?
So now when a girl tells you you're hung like a furry woodland creature...it's not as bad as it was before?
Bugs are just features that have been fixed.
... for the John Wayne Bobbits of the world!
I'll be really impressed when we see more complex
apendages, like hands, feet, and, or course, heads.
Mr. Dewclaw, you too can ENLARGE....
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I bet ol' Mr. Bobbitt would like a couple spares in case he should ever again, uh.. loose his original copy.
.. One of those classic
'you just can't make this stuff up' things.
In case anybody's wondering, this particular technique is not useful for sex change surgery because the scientists start with tissue samples from the subject and grow them up to make more. This is great in that it avoids any graft-vs-host problems, but if you start out with no penis tissue, you can't make any. It could some day be very helpful for boys born with a micropenis, or following certain types of accidents which befall genetic males... (are you cringing now?)
It also occurs to me that if one was drowning, yelling "Help! I'm drowning and I lost my bikini top" would probably be m
Incidentally, the other article also says that the one grown in the lab works more like that of a 60 year old--rabbit? Doesn't sound too attractive, unless you happen to be an 80 year old rabbit, I suppose.
..involved in science.
My dear friends, I would be much more interested in this article if it discussed eardrums or brains. As you all know by now, I am in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. A new brain would be just about right, even if it is made out of people! And eardrums. Many days spent at the firing range have just about blown out my right eardrum. Technology is wonderful, but unless it can solve real problems, I can't get excited about it.
Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
Ha, this gives me hope. I'm still waiting for a new heart that is grown this way.
-- Cheers!
good lord... where were these guys when john bobbit was in need?
I would like to know how the doctors measured the "stiffness" of the bunny member after the procedure. What exactly is the "unit' of measurment used? I suppose they could use torque to see at what point the angle of the dangle ceases to remain static. Here are a few other methods of really measuring stiffness.
I'm glad that I didn't go into the medical field -- how do you explain to your wife or husband that you were playing with erectile tissue all day at the office.
Good one!
With the natural thing, at nine and a half today, I _wish-wish-wish_ they ban any such methods. I don't want competition. Sorry dudes. Get off my planet.
This is going to create trends that spiral out of control. Soon guys will be carrying around their huge bulges in wheelbarrels. We will finally out-do the Peacok as a species.
Table-ized A.I.
Now i can stop praying to pull a reverse michael jackson to get a huge penis!
-- botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount}
Also, I didn't notice until you mentioned it, but the act has become less, um, painful for her since our son was born (excluding the couple of months it took to heal). Since, um, we've had a better fit, she seems to genuinly enjoy it more instead of mostly doing it for me.
science is a religion
Grad Student 1: "Hey, where are you doing your research"
Grad Student 2, (mumbled):"Errrrmmmm, test tube penis lab"
Grad Student 1:"What, where are you working? I couldn't hear you"
Grad Student 2 (losing it completely):"Test tube penis lab. Goddamnit, I'm working in the test tube penis lab, four fucking years of busting my ass as an undergrad, thousands of dollars spent on tuition, books and crystal meth for those last minute finals week studiy binges, studying for the GRE, debasing myself before admissions officials and I end up in the test tube penis lab. Why God? Why! Why hast thou forsaken me? Will not this cup pass from me?" breaks down in sobs
Grad Student 1:"Test tube penis lab???? Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah
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