I'm curious if this was done with the same techniques being developed for lab-grown meat.
Not closely related, but also about reproductive organs so I don't feel bad about posting here/now, and very interesting: the origins of menstruation in fetus-mother resource competition.
This is truly remarkable, at the same level that the world's first test tube baby was. Hopefully no test tube baby will be born with a need for one of these, but if so, yay, science!
I heard Martha Washington had, like, 30 goddamn vaginas.
See, I knew this news was made for the Mineshaft, so to speak.
I was thinking "big deal" until I got to the part where they put them in people.
So are tapeworms, but nobody ever complains about them.
2 is absolutely fascinating. I was telling a colleague (retired nurse) the other day about mothers having DNA from their children floating around in their bodies for years afterward and she was surprised.
Because tapeworms help women maintain a slim figure.
Not really. Don't deliberately infest yourself with a tapeworm.
Having a double set is not unheard of. But twice the menstrual blood, ugh.
They probably won't give you a second if the first works. At least, insurance won't cover it.
If you got a second you'd be a perfect match for this guy .
If you Google "maria callas tapeworm", the image set you get is Maria Callas, Maria Callas, tapeworm, Maria Callas, Maria Callas, Maria Callas.
If you Google image search for "tapeworm", you get drawing of one coming out of an asshole.
Thanks for the warning. If you read the Snopes thing on the tapeworm diet, you get, among other delights, this:
Other versions of how to draw out a tapeworm include placing milk, cookies, and a hammer near the afflicted person's anus for a few nights...
When the tapeworm goes to get a free hammer, you drown it in the milk.
If you Google "tapeworm maria callas" and "maria tapeworm callas" the image set you get is also Maria Callas, Maria Callas, tapeworm, Maria Callas, Maria Callas, Maria Callas. The tapeworm isn't getting any respect here.
18: placing milk, cookies, and a hammer near the afflicted person's anus
Would that work to induce labor as well?
Either that or Christmas presents will show up in your intestines.
You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry...
I haven't seen any mention of the use of lab vag for transwomen. Doesn't that seem like a pretty big group of people to leave out of the discussion?
26: To be fair, so far the recipients are just four women with vaginal aplasia. I think there's still time for transwomen to be brought into the discussion.
Didn't it say that they seeded the netting with each woman's own vaginal cells? That may make the procedure need modified for trans women.
They had to start with cells biopsied from the vulva. Would it work if you didn't have a vulva to start with?
With these new body parts and procedures they will have to create new medical billing codes. If the placenta doesn't come out on its own, you might be billed for manual removal of it (code 75.4). Maybe try cookies and milk first.
So not getting as much attention, but part of the same story, are the lab-grown nostrils. If the lab-grown vaginas were constructed from epithelial cells and muscle cells, then I wonder if epithelial cells from the inner lining of the nose might work for creating genetically "self" vaginas for the transwomen. Seems like nasal lining and vaginal lining are physiologically similar.
I'm just going to not make the obvious joke here.
In fact noses contain erectile tissue. So it's all coming together now.
I'm just going to not make the obvious joke here.
Who are you, and what have done with Moby?
34: "What we're dealing with, is basically a nose."
1: I want to say that it is basically the same technique. Someone more pedantic than I would say it's quite different for a pile of technical reasons. The biggest difference is that for the "meat," you're growing fibrous muscle tissue, but you have to be particular that you're not generating something very tough or that isn't tough enough. I'm not sure how they worked that out. For things like organs, 3D structure is really important, so getting 3D printers that are compatible with whatever biocompatible, rapidly digestible/decomposable material is probably the biggest technical challenge. Also, you need to be very careful that your cells respond properly to signaling or else you give the transplant recipients cancer.
They made an entire human organ, and put it in someone who didn't have it, and it works.
And not just any organ, the most mysterious and secretive of all organs.
Properly, functionally secretive. Quite impressive, all around.
This is my friend's mum - http://www.renfrewgroup.com/blog/winners-of-the-british-inventors-project-award-2014/ Perhaps not as sexy as a vagina, but pretty useful.
42 will now get everyone to click the link.
Please keep your penis out of the insulin.
So it's all coming together now.
Well, whenever possible.
If you Google "tapeworm maria callas" and "maria tapeworm callas" the image set you get is also Maria Callas, Maria Callas, tapeworm, Maria Callas, Maria Callas, Maria Callas. The tapeworm isn't getting any respect here.
The tapeworm's dynamic range is just not very impressive, lacks attack, and is weak in both vibrato and tremolo.
I wonder about people who are born with ambiguous genitalia. Some of them choose have vaginas but they have to use a dilator to make sure that they don't close. It would be great to be able to make the choice more permanent.
42 onwards - it is exciting. I've seen her demonstrate it and it's very cool.
They made an entire human organ, and put it in someone who didn't have it ...
The construction of this sentence is very, very important.
Change one letter ("i" in "in" to "o"), or switch 2 words (the first occurrence of "it", and "someone") and the sentence conveys a whole other, and very interestin', meaning.
The real challenge, of course, is the petri-dish penis. Once we can grow cocks everything will change.