The penises grown in a lab: Scientists say organs could be tested on humans within five years

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 08:05 EST, 6 October 2014 | By Anna Hodgekiss

[Red Badger]

Scientists have successfully grown penises in a laboratory and say they could be tested on humans within five years.

The organs would be used to help men who have suffered a serious injury to the region, had surgery for cancer or are suffering from a congenital abnormality.

The work is being carried out the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina.

Scientists there are now assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability, The Guardian reports.

It is hoped the US Food and Drug Administration will give the green light for testing on humans within five years.

Earlier this year, the same team of researchers declared they had successfully grown vaginas in a laboratory and implanted them into four teenage patients.

The new organs were given to women born with MRKH - Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which the vagina and uterus are underdeveloped or absent.

The treatment could also potentially be applied to patients with vaginal cancer or injuries.

it is being funded by the US Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, in the hope soldiers with battlefield injuries can be helped.

[Red Badger]

With a new one, you can start from scratch.............

[Starstruck]

What happens if there’s a recall?

Brat sale.

[Red Badger]

There will be a slight surcharge for oversize baggage.........

[RetSignman]

One of the testers?

[RansomOttawa]

Scientists there are now assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability, The Guardian reports.

What do they do, strap 'em onto a crash test dummy?

[Red Badger]

Well, you wouldn’t want it to fall off at an inopportune time!............

[roamer_1]

[...] and say they could be tested on humans within five years.

One wonders what they are being 'tested on' now...

[tupac]

or you could be,

“Happier than a two-peckered puppy!”

[Fido969]

Scientists have successfully grown penises

I thought this meant that Bill Nye was finally standing up to the climate-change crowd.

[Resolute Conservative]

We grew one at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[GraceG]

Are you Laz?

[GraceG]

Plenty of Dicks already in Washington D.C.

Wake me up when they can grow some spines as the GOPe sure needs some....

[Praxeologue]

This will be cosmetic only. The new organ will not have a nerve connection to the brain to either cause an erection or experience pleasure.

[Red Badger]

Maybe there is hope for the GOP after all.....................

[Red Badger]

Nerves can’t be reattached?.....................

[maggief]

Jose or Hose B?

[RegulatorCountry]

What will happen, of course, is guys will be trading up to larger models akin to breast implants.

From the sound of it, that would be difficult to do, ethically. Since a "donor penis" is required, it would be luck of the draw just as genetic endowment is.

It also requires specialized cells acquired from remaining penile tissue, so females wishing to complete their masquerade as male are out of luck, as are those with genetic abnormalities resulting in being born without.

[Red Badger]

Jose can you see?................

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Dick Factory. Wasn’t that a short lived NBC sitcom starring Jim Carrey?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I heard that early testing didn't go so well....