If I ever need reconstructive surgery…

2008-02-02 | Filed under Mad Science |

…I’m going to Finland:

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

Greg Egan’s stories about cloned organ banks are so last millennium. The brain-in-utero one is closer to this scenario (though a jawbone is rather less nauseating than a brain, IMHO).

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One Response to “If I ever need reconstructive surgery…”

  1. Patti Abbott on 2008-02-03 10:05 pm

    Having carried several things inside my abdomen, or there abouts, I vote for men to undertake this task now and forever.

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