Engineers Implant Vascularized 3D Muscles

An anonymous reader writes "A big hurdle to creating "replacement parts" for the human body is the lack of an internal, nourishing blood system in engineered tissues. Using a stem cell "cocktail," researchers say they've now overcome that, and successfully implanted engineered muscles in lab animals. Next stop, genuine implantable pecs?"

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Waiting isn't too hard...

[mister_llah]

Well, it'll be nice to be able to graft some muscles on and all that, but I'll do what I do with software releases... I will wait until awhile after the technology is released, so that all the misfortunes occur to the impatiently eager... and then when the technology will not have a chance of leaving me a parapalegic or something, then I'll go for it...

=== ... but this is fun stuff, especially considering the article on cloned brain cells... perhaps this means we are nearing cloned stem cells? ... and then the moral ambiguity of stem cell research is only in cloning issues, one step closer to pleasing everybody!

Yee haw!

Re:Schwarzenegger upgrade module

[19thNervousBreakdown]

OK, normally NSFW tags are nice, but:

• You're in a discussion about breast implants.
• The link is to a website called siliconeholocaust.com, that's
  silicone: The things breast implants are made out of. holocaust: Something horrible. .com: A website.
• The document linked is photos1a.html. There might just be picutures there.

Given these facts, it would be a pretty good bet that you shouldn't click the link if you're at work, but then again I could see how you would think it's the Cliff Notes for the novelized version of Dawson's Creek.