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Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells

Posted by Soulskill on from the close-the-organ-banks dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news out of Finland, where a patient's upper jaw was replaced with bone cultivated from stem cells and grown inside the patient himself. We discussed other advances in stem cell research a few months ago. Quoting: "In this case they identified and pulled out cells called mesenchymal stem cells -- immature cells than can give rise to bone, muscle or blood vessels. When they had enough cells to work with, they attached them to a scaffold made out of a calcium phosphate biomaterial and then put it inside the patient's abdomen to grow for nine months. The cells turned into a variety of tissues and even produced blood vessels, the researchers said."

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  1. Reminds me of Alien vs Pred by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A jaw growing in his abdomen? I've seen that film before...

  2. New Body Parts by hiruhl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean I can have a second wee-wee?

    1. Re:New Body Parts by Aardpig · · Score: 2, Funny

      Surely you could just reposition the large dick growing from your forehead?

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    2. Re:New Body Parts by ehrichweiss · · Score: 4, Funny

      This reminds me of an animation I saw on a "movie" called "Too Outrageous Animation" where a guy kept praying to Saint Martin to grant 4 wishes and his nagging wife said she wanted his body covered with cocks(fingers, tongue, elbows, etc.). St. Martin granted the wish and the husband was so enraged that he said he wanted his wife covered in vaginas. That wish was granted and then they both saw they could never go out in public and so they wanted none, the wish was granted. Then they realized they had zero sexual organs and wanted their old ones back; the wish was granted. The moral of the story was: Instead of asking for cocks and cunts, ask for brains instead.

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    3. Re:New Body Parts by LBt1st · · Score: 2, Funny

      There was a guy like that once..

      http://richandrare.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/hell-save-children-but-not-the-british-children/

  3. Re:Bill Gates v2.0 by ale_ryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had $100B I'd spend it on blackjack and hookers!
    In fact, forget about blackjack.

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  4. And in other news by loafula · · Score: 5, Funny

    The pope just shit a brick

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    1. Re:And in other news by AndGodSed · · Score: 2, Funny

      No he didn't, that would be shattering HIS dignity... he quietly passed wind, in anger...

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  5. Well, maybe it's not stem cells but... by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    A woman gets badly burned, and they graft skin from her husband's ass to rebuild her face. After the series of operations, she looks great.
    She says, "Honey, how can I ever repay you?"
    He says, "I get paid back every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek."

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  6. Re:Dentists have been doing this for years by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A nerd Dentist....who knew? Tell me your practice is in Minnesota.

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  7. Re:How much did it cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Euro-Finland the euro is divided into cents, in Soviet Finland we used to have the Markka (local ruble) that was divided by pennies... but anyway... to state that he did not pay a cent is correct, no one calls the cents euro-cents.