Hey all! I'm Kelton. I'm a queer trans dude living in NC. I'm a sociology and women & gender studies student, and I do a lot of lgbT organizing and activism. I'm also pretty geeky and into video games, cartoons, and comics. I'm currently dating this dingus.

19

Sep. '12

Your lab-grown penis is (almost) ready

nothingman:

[Dr. Anthony Atala] has already grown bladders using a patient’s own cells, and he’s made penises that rabbits were able to put to their proper use, fathering litters of new little bunnies. He hopes to use this expertise to help rebuild the bodies of veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as men and boys injured in car accidents.

Atala’s lab in 2006 made the first full organ ever grown and implanted into a human – the bladder – and the rabbit penises were the first solid organs. A new bid from AFIRM caught his eye. It called for experts in rebuilding the lower abdomen, the genitals, the pelvic area and the bladder.

These injuries are among the least talked-about but among the most horrible affecting war veterans. The improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, planted by insurgents across Iraq and Afghanistan blow off feet, legs and arms, and they can especially damage the pelvic areas that are difficult to protect with body armor.

Science is amazing and awesome

yo can I get one or is this a “cis dudes only” deal

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    I’m hoping vaginas, uteri, and such will follow, but those hopes are not high. Just take a look at Viagra. You better...
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    It’s a cis dudes only deal. This is old news.

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