Regrowing a Penis – Maybe One Day
November 9, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Sex, men's health
Some of you may be old enough to remember the show, The Six Million Dollar Man, with Lee Majors. It was about a man who had been severely injured but was rebuilt with futuristic body parts that enabled him to perform superhuman feats.
The funny thing is that now, such rebuilding is possible in some ways. We have great technology that is being applied to artificial limbs, cochlear implants that can help some people hear – there is a lot of research going on to help people live their lives as they did before they were injured. And now, we may have a regrowing penis. Seriously.
Ok, it’s a while away yet. Research is still on rabbits. Imagine choosing rabbits to help treat fertility problems. Have you ever heard of an infertile rabbit?
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina used tissue engineering techniques to construct a penis for rabbits. This penis was so functional that the rabbits were then able to mate, producing offspring.
So now, the question is, will they be able to reproduce (sorry for the pun) this in humans?
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Hopefully they’ll regrow it bigger and better.