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Rabbits' Male Members Grown In Labs

Posted by Hemos on from the for-all-those-accident-people dept.

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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  1. Oops! by smoondog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You accidently put the einstein icon where there should have been a foot. Please correct...

    -Sean

  2. won't work for sex changes by gene_tailor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?)

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    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
    1. Re:won't work for sex changes by tinguru · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Women can get erect clits...