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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09/18/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    Was this procedure invented by Walter Bishop, by any chance?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    Roll to save versus Eyebite.
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    Chew on that!
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    ...did it work?
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    Image of chronubis chronubis
    09/17/09

    @Dr.Quatermass: The first line in the post contains the answer.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    09/18/09

    @chronubis: :) Duly noted.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    But was it her eye tooth?

    I'll be here all week, ladies and gentlemen.
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    09/17/09

    @Smeagol92055: it already said that it was in this very page.
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    Um, nevermind. Please ignore. Hey, why are you still reading this?
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    Image of North Star North Star
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    An eye for an eye, and a tooth for...an eye?
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    That is so awesome and yet I'm so squeamish from the images that I want to vomit.

    HUUUUUUUUUAAAAAGHHH!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/17/09

    @Rocketknight: Exactly my reaction. I didn't even watch the video, the description made me nauseous enough.
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    09/17/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: This is one of the few times I'm happy video is blocked at work.
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    that's wild! I've implanted my foot in quite a few asses, but have never seen any of those people run while sitting.

    #@!
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @SpammerOvTheGods: I've implanted my foot in my mouth on a regular basis...
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    Image of finalxnoodles finalxnoodles
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    now she can eat Seafood
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    09/18/09

    @finalxnoodles: I "sea" what you did there!
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/17/09

    In reply to Woman Gets a Tooth Implanted In Her Eye To Cure Blindness
    I had an eye implanted in my mouth, no wonder it didnt work.
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    Image of Raj Saxena Raj Saxena
    05/20/09

    In reply to One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
    [thinking better of posting tasteless joke about how Germans now have a humane source for those lampshades they're so fond of]
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/20/09

    @Raj Saxena: Paging Mr Gacy, Mr John Wayne Gacy, to the collections desk please...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    @Raj Saxena: Yeah. Good thing you didn't because that would be incredibly offensive.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/20/09

    @KhaiJB: Ed Gein please report to the Collections Desk, our caller Khai got the ticket mixed up.
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    05/20/09

    In reply to One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
    coming up.


    seamless Tattoo removals while you wait...


    next door?


    Custom pre-printed Tattoo's while you wait..

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    In reply to One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
    Cool, I want to use this for my next leather jacket.


    We're another step closer to vat-grown meat.

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    Image of Fall-Apart Fall-Apart
    05/20/09

    In reply to One Unit of Lab-Grown Human Skin Now Costs 34 Euros
    How do they deal with compatibility/rejection issues? Doesn't it have to be grown specifically for you?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/20/09

    @Fall-Apart: They grow these swatches directly from skin tissues, so yeah I imagine they'd grow some for you out of your own skin.
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    Image of Fall-Apart Fall-Apart
    05/20/09

    @Annalee Newitz @corpore-metal: Fair enough, but that doesn't exactly translate into over-the-counter Band-Aid replacement, then. More like dermatologist office or burn ward product.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/20/09

    @Fall-Apart:


    True. But things could grow cheap enough that you could bank your own emergency skin, sort of like a blood bank, renewed periodically from new samples taken from your body.

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    Image of Fall-Apart Fall-Apart
    05/20/09

    @corpore-metal: Periodically renew? I could implant my own skin from when I was 20 and you want me to renew the sample?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/20/09

    @Fall-Apart: Actually, skin is decently immune privileged. The current FDA approved skin substitutes include de-nucleated cells and cell substitutes. It's more important to cover up the injury than perfectly replicate the skin. Of course, a perfect replacement would need pigmentation, hair, sweat glands, nerve connections, etc, but they're not close yet.


    Also, no cell-produced skin product is approved for burn care. I know they were only allowed for chronic skin ulcers (wounds that don't close). As you can see in the picture, larger patches of skin aren't as common yet. Maybe that's changed, but that was up to date as about a year ago. Of course, they may use artificial skin for burn patients, but not the cell-culture variety.


    As for the article, I'm pretty sure there are a few skin substitutes besides this that use 2 layers (usually dermal and epidermal). Can't remember the names, but there are others already out there.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/20/09

    @Fall-Apart: Seriously.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/20/09

    @kagekiri: Thanks for the info!
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