We need a good “pissing contest” joke in the story somewhere…
Bladders engineered in the laboratory from patients’ own cells and then implanted into the body have succeeded in their first clinical trial.
The feat was accomplished by Anthony Atala, at Wake Forest University Medical School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues. He says that while scientists have had success with skin transplants grown on scaffolds in the past, this is the first time they have grown and transplanted a discrete, complex organ.
The success is the culmination of an idea that the team began exploring 16 years ago. Atala adds that they are also working on growing bio-engineered hearts and pancreases in the lab. Growing organs from a patient’s own cells means the organs are not rejected after transplantation.
Pee jokes aside, this is an amazing development.
I’m really pissed they hadn’t come up with this sooner!
I wonder how long it will be before pilots and truckers are having custom bladders grown and installed to prevent “unnecessary” stops.
I will sign up right now to have one installed in my wife so that we can take a decent road trip.
^^^^^^^^ — Good Idea!
It really bugs me that scientists keep pissing on the beauty of natural selection!
“It really bugs me that scientists keep pissing on the beauty of natural selection!”
Who would have thought that artificial bladders and bullet proof vests would somehow be related?!
Thats just what I need a new bladder and a kidney.
How do I order one?
To the doctor who created this:
Urine The Money.
Sorry.
Lou: your a real pisser! 🙂
A couple of these and I can write the entire Cincinnati phone book in the snow!
Umm … you people and your toilet jokes … if its not a hoax, this is a major medical discovery – Star Trek stuff … think – no more rejected transplants, or donor shortatge – absolutely brilliant … hopefully its original quality though … imagine if the new one was defective – unpleasant, to say the least
I saw the article in Livescience, apparently it’s quite real.