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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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  3. 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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