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    Image of pjp13 pjp13
    11/16/09

    In reply to Your Next Body Is Growing In a Lab Right Now
    unfortunately, tissue engineering is at least 10~15 years off from mass availability and then theres the issue of cost, since it probably won't be covered by insurance. :[ i should've been an electrical engineer... #dranthonyatala
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/16/09

    @pjp13: Nobody wants to be an electrical engineer... Tissue engineering was a ways off when I was studying it a few years ago, although, I witnessed some pretty badass inventions by my friends, and I designed a pretty sick soft tissue measurement device too. Unfortunately, the design belongs to the college and not me! More on track, my friends designed an organic bone scaffold with osteocytes throughout based on a 3d input. I watched their presentation - pretty amazing. Obviously these things need a million and one approvals, but most don't even know what's available and what's been tried. I'd tell anyone to point the browser to a college website and a biomedical dissertation; anyone would be more perceptive :) #dranthonyatala
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    Image of pupaboy3 pupaboy3
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    will there be band-aids for us darker skinned peoples or do they only come in white skin? #apligraf
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    Meat tape. Next thing you know, we will have real duck tape. #apligraf
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    Image of witeowl witeowl
    11/13/09

    @FrankenPC: Puns like that are just fowl. #apligraf
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/13/09

    @witeowl: (Franken gives whiteowl the bird) OH! double pun!! ;-D #apligraf
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    Image of yuriythebest3 yuriythebest3
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    speaking of which- as soon as the japanese get a hold of this bio-degradable sex dolls will be only years away #apligraf
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/13/09

    @yuriythebest3: Just add water! #apligraf
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    Image of The Overmind (aka that guy) The Overmind (aka that guy)
    11/13/09

    @FrankenPC: Yeah..and then "creative" people start adding other liquids to achieve different flavored experiences.

    "Dude! Add rootbeer instead of water! It's AWESOME" #apligraf
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    11/13/09

    @The Overmind (aka that guy): It'll probably be Tentacle Grape. Or...not soda. #apligraf
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    Image of Psilo619001 Psilo619001
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    i can see growing boneless beef, poultry, and pork.... no animals with brains that can feel pain, just yummy yummy meat.
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    11/13/09

    @Psilo619001: Ch-ch-ch-CHIA! #apligraf
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    In 30 years... and then there were zombies. #apligraf
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    I'm pretty sure that a Boston biotech, either Genzyme or Novartis, has a facility that makes living tissue for burn victims and other patients and has for some time. They grow up the patient's own cells. Transportation cost is a bitch (have to deliver directly to patient, which means flying someone) and they don't even break even. #apligraf
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    Image of Aces_Over_Kings Aces_Over_Kings
    11/13/09

    @The Lab: Hey, you just made my day. I work at the facility that you're referring to.

    You're right -- we can take a postage stamp sized skin biopsy from a severe burn patient and create hundreds of postcard-sized skin grafts.

    The boxes of grafts have to be hand-carried by a courier directly to the OR staff who will be preparing the patient to receive them. Each box gets its own plane ticket and seat assignment.

    And because it's the patient's own skin, there's no chance of rejection. It's a life-saving treatment for many patients, and I believe is provided regardless of insurance status, often at the company's expense.

    Pretty cool stuff, and one of the reasons I've worked here for almost 8 years. Anyway, thanks for the shoutout! #apligraf
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/13/09

    @Aces_Over_Kings: Happy to give you guys a shoutout, it is a great service you provide. Remind me, Genzyme or Novartis? I was a grad student who collaborated with Novatris but I have friends as Genzyme. Can't remember who told me about you guys. #apligraf
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    Image of Aces_Over_Kings Aces_Over_Kings
    11/27/09

    @The Lab: Genzyme.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    yeah but... how does it taste?

    is this going to pave the way for ethical cannibalism?? #apligraf
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/13/09

    @nutbastard: You can call em Wendigo Ham #apligraf
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    I wanna be an Oscar Meyer bandaid, that is what I'd truly like to bee-ee-eee, cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer bandaid, everyone would seal their wounds with meeeeeee #apligraf
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    Image of fakejezuzdiaz fakejezuzdiaz
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    We've heard it enough times to know these guys mean it when they say it, but the idea that within 20 years we may be able to regenerate a finger is simply mind-blowing!

    I get the chills... these are exciting times...

    ... even if they are powered by the discarded foreskins of circumcised children. [shudders] #apligraf
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/13/09

    @fakejezuzdiaz: Which is about as "appetizing" as the fact that sausages are made from pig intestines... and we know what was in those intestines.

    They still taste good though! #apligraf
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    Image of fakejezuzdiaz fakejezuzdiaz
    11/13/09

    @ebob: @Gary_7vn: Gentlemen, I think we have a new wave of culinary inspiration on our hands... follow me here: discarded children's foreskins... stuffed with bacon!

    Tap, tap, tap...

    Hello? Is this thing on? [crickets] #apligraf
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    Image of charlie001 charlie001
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    I've had 2 of them, did speed my healing, but did NOT do the full job - THAT too an additional 18 months. Chronic leg ulcers are NO fun. Picture having a wound of around 14 square inches, as deep as 1/4 in the middle, that just WON'T go away
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    Can I get Apligraf seat covers? Heard the Whale Penis ones are no longer available. #apligraf
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    Gary_7vn promoted this comment FriarNurgle was starred FriarNurgle was unstarred
    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/13/09

    @FriarNurgle: And neither is Aristotle Onnanis! I thought I was the only one who remembered what the bar stools on his yacht were covered with. He used to get a kick out of women running their hands over the leather and asking him what it was. #apligraf
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    Image of aldar.sierra aldar.sierra
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    wow! maybe in 20 years we will be able to GROW our very own bacon!
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/13/09

    @aldar.sierra: You will absolutely be able to grow your own bacon. Meat production as it is now done is very very destructive to the environment, it is also unsustainable. In the future almost all meat will be grown in vats, and it will be better in every way. 50 years from now people will wonder how we could ever kill a baby lamb and then eat it. #apligraf
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    Image of cmanptown02 cmanptown02
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    OK...if you cut it, it heals. If you chew it will it all regenerate into that bologna slice.

    Stem cell research is the future

    In the words of Peter Griffin.."why aren't we funding this?" #apligraf
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    nutbastard promoted this comment cmanptown02 was starred cmanptown02 was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/13/09

    @cmanptown02:

    because all our money is tied up in enriching the wealthy, stealing from the poor, and killing people. #apligraf
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    Image of cmanptown02 cmanptown02
    11/13/09

    @nutbastard: oh yeah....it's all coming back....it's all coming back to me nooooooow #apligraf
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    11/13/09

    @nutbastard: Amen. #apligraf
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    Image of ForensicGuy ForensicGuy
    11/13/09

    In reply to Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue
    New and Improved Fleshlight!!
    Now with Hymen Regeneration!!
    Make everytime it's first time!!

    I feel dirty now... #apligraf
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