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more about #tissueengineering more comments → Roklimber: Was this procedure invented by Walter Bishop, by any chance? more » Belabras: Roll to save versus Eyebite. more » Anekanta - Go Play!: Chew on that! more » Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: ...did it work? more » Smeagol92055: But was it her eye tooth? I'll be here all week, ladies and gentlemen. more » Boas_MC: Um, nevermind. Please ignore. Hey, why are you still reading this? more » North Star: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for...an eye? more » Rocketknight: That is so awesome and yet I'm so squeamish from the images that I want to vomit. HUUUUUUUUUAAAAAGHHH! more » SpammerOvTheGods: that's wild! I've implanted my foot in quite a few asses, but have never seen any of those people run while sitting. #@! more » finalxnoodles: now she can eat Seafood more » burlybax: I had an eye implanted in my mouth, no wonder it didnt work. more » Raj Saxena: [thinking better of posting tasteless joke about how Germans now have a humane source for those lampshades they're so fond of] more » KhaiJB: coming up. seamless Tattoo removals while you wait... next door? Custom pre-printed Tattoo's while you wait.. more » Grey_Area: Cool, I want to use this for my next leather jacket. We're another step closer to vat-grown meat. more » Fall-Apart: How do they deal with compatibility/rejection issues? Doesn't it have to be grown specifically for you? more » -
#madmedicine
Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
A woman, blind for 9 years, can see again after doctors performed a rare surgery where her own tooth was inserted into eye. How does this procedure work? More » -
#madscience
One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
Thanks to advances in biotechnology, German researchers can now rapidly mass produce swatches of real human skin. At 34 Euros per unit, this manufactured skin is so cheap you might soon find it for sale next to bandages in the pharmacy. More » -
#angiogenesis
Scientists Grow "Ball of Human Blood Vessels" in Mice
It's the next step on the path to robust tissue engineering and synthetic meat. Researchers today announced that they'd used special progenitor cells to grow human blood vessels inside mice. The vessels grew after scientists injected the cells into the mice, forming a "ball" of self-assembled veins that connected to each other and pumped blood. More » -
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#askabiogeek
Forget the Jetpack - Where Are My Replacement Organs?
Welcome to Ask a Biogeek, a column about cutting-edge biology by UC Berkeley researcher Terry Johnson. Knowing which organs you can live without is all well and good, but wouldn't you rather have replacement organs? Tissue engineers already have some pretty good ones if you happen to lose your skin or severely damage your bones. And there are some other organs we're cooking up for you too, as long as you can hold out for a few more years. More »
