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Grow Your Own Replacement Bones
Tim writes "New Scientist reports on a German man who had a complete jaw transplant, after having his cancerous jawbone removed nine years ago. The twist? This jawbone was grown on his shoulder, using a titanium mold, bone marrow, and recombinant bone morphogenic protein." There's also a BBC story.
Gentlemen, start your erection jokes!
Go! Go! Go!
I've always wanted 20 or 30 more vertebrae. And finally, some quasi-femurs and quasi-patellas for my new 2-jointed legs.
Hmmm. Where to attach the second set of arms?
of jawbone shoulder guy ending up in the next Dr. Evil henchman?
Tongue in cheek.
Just wait till the piercing/body modification crowd catches wind of this. I imagine tusks, horns, antlers, fangs, claws... The possibilities are endless.
Unknown host pong.
I'd probably complain, something like, "damn, this really bites"...
Sigs cause cancer.
Groaners all, and since everybody wants one, let's get them on the floor:
Now, "I have a bone" to pick with you has a whole new meaning!
Hey, is that a jawbone growing out of your shoulder or are you just happy to see me?
Great - I hear Johnson grew another mouth. Now I'll be getting it in both ears.
I, for one, welcome our shoulder jawbone overlords.
OK, now in seriousness, I think this is a great achievement. Flash forward 10-12 years, and imagine what this could do for other organs. Regrow a finger or a hand for amputees maybe? Suppose we get to work on other organs, such as the heart? Old guy in his 60's can just have new organs regrown to extend his healthy life expectancy to 150 years?
Of course, there's the whole "stem cell and cloning" issues that might come to play when we're talking about organs and not bones, but still, this is a very exciting first step. Congrats to the doctor and patient.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
i wonder if he looks like lockjaw from the old he-man cartoon...
Really bizarre feeling while eating leftover ribs.
I thought you said "boner".
How has this affected his ski-boxing?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Does this mean I should stop harvesting body parts off of hookers?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Is he a greeter at Walmart? Cashier at a Burger King? Clown at kids parties?
I just can't see him saying, "Oooo ahhh iiiieess iiii ahhhh?" (Do you want fries with that?)
Yes. I'm going to hell.
I mean seriously. As cool as this is, who wants to have a jaw on their shoulder? If you had a clone, you could put the jaw on his shoulder.
No fuss, no muss.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
One might even say "jaw-droppingly cool". Because this is just that cool.
John
I'm surprised that I don't get spam about this topic.
... but man, talk about a chip on your shoulder!
Maybe they'll work-out how to regrow noses, and Michael Jackson can put that piece of his ear back? (The idea that pain will limit abuse is, perhaps, wishful thinking.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
> I wouldn't exactly want a titanium bulge [...]
Oh, I don't know. The ladies love mine.
Ligand binding to its receptor induces the formation of a complex in which the Type II BMP receptor phosphorylates and activates the Type I BMP receptor.
That sounds so made up.
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
The circus!
You're right. Everyone knows it takes shark cartilage to grow frickin' laser beams out of your head.
John
He still has no teeth and the doctors claim he can get a set next year.
They're waiting for a shoulder to open up.
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Sounds like there's hope for Darth Malak after all!
Regarding the nose,
Somebody please forward this article to Michael Jackson.
"Such a lovely child...so full of bones"
12:50 - press return.
This reminds me of the Ted Maul bit in the Science episode of Brass Eye where a transplant clinic preys on deadbeats to incubate organs which are then harvested for their rich clients. 7 feet of new tongue for Donald Trump, white-ladies wrists for Saddam Hussein, etc... One man grows 150 lips on his chest for 6 pence a lip while the reporter makes an undercover call to the clinic under the pretense of having had a load of wog and spazing it all on a horse and is offered 500 quid to grow a "stomach full of shoulders".
finnally! I can grow my replacement penis. but where do i grow it in the meantime. he used his shoulder, don't think that would be appropriate at my workplace.
-hak
If she floats, she's a witch.
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The neckbone? I hear the word of the Lord!
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
Yeah, I was thinking I could get a tiny little extra lower AND upper mandible grown, then I could have that freaky double mouth action thing from Alien going on...
(yeah we can laugh now, when our kids come home with a double ring of Doberman teeth circling their skulls 'cause it's the krezappy style of the day we'll be singing a different tune.
It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries
The surgery was outsourced to India.
There may be hope for England yet.... ; )
-b
Oh give me a clone,
of my own flesh and bone,
with its Y chromosome changed to X