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Penises grown in laboratories could soon be ready for human testing after “encouraging” studies on rabbits, in a breakthrough for men with congenital abnormalities or traumatic injuries.

Researchers at North Carolina’s Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine are assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability, and hope to get approval for human testing within five years.

The organ would be grown using a patient’s own cells to minimize the risk of rejection.

Professor Anthony Atala oversaw the institute’s successful engineering of penises for rabbits in 2008 and said human organ transplantation was on the horizon.

“The rabbit studies were very encouraging, but to get approval for humans, we need all the safety and quality assurance data, we need to show that the materials aren’t toxic, and we have to spell out the manufacturing process, step by step,” he said, according to The Guardian.

The newspaper reports it would take about four to six weeks for cells from the patient’s penis to grow in a culture.

Scientists start the process by washing a donor penis in a mild detergent to remove all donor cells. About two weeks later when just a collagen scaffold of the penis is left, scientists “seed” the patient’s cultured cells.

The pioneering work is funded by the US Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which hopes to use the technology to help soldiers injured in service.

However, Atala says it would also benefit men with congenital abnormalities.

Right now, men can have their penis reconstructed using forearm or thigh flesh. A penile prosthetic is implanted to simulate an erection.
 
News over here recently is that a woman with a transplanted, grown, womb has successfully given birth to a healthy child.
Now we have a grown dick.

Talk about leaving the seed anywhere. . . .
 
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Plot bunnies are hopping around madly here. Catch them before they escape!
 
With respect to the 'penis' growers ... I will watch with baited breath as a poor victim inflicts mutilation on his diminished genitals in the hopes of growing something more ... voluptuous.

Montanos
 
Right now, men can have their penis reconstructed using forearm or thigh flesh. A penile prosthetic is implanted to simulate an erection.

About 25 years ago, an almost-elderly friend of mine was one of the guests on the Phil Donahue Show episode where penile implants were the topic. His was (at the time) new technology and was operated by a remote button that was strapped to his waist.

I can still see the "How the fuck do I comeback to that?" look on Donahue's face, when he asked if my friend had experienced any problems with his hi-tech tool, and got a response of: "Well Phil, other than the neighbor's garage door opener being on the same frequency, not really."

:D
 
We got enough dicks at LIT, what we need are more balls.
 
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