'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I have a tumblr question--do you know of a way to grab all the notes on a post? My pic has doubled my previous high (turns out my money isn't in shipping...), but I can only work out how to read them using XKit, but parsing the HTML for them is killer.
(This will function both as feedback and salve for the days where drawing makes me want to cry (I can see how to fix it! Dean has the wrong weapon!)--what's that back-pat folder called?)
Success implanting lab-grown vaginal organs in women.
I wonder what this can mean for trans* bottom surgery. Amazing what it meant for those girls.
(My link, unlike tommy's, is safe for life)
Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch Steve Ballmer’s Achingly Awkward Dr. Evil Parody
This is kinda' painful to watch. But at least it's short.
Steve Balmer as Dr. Evil and Bill Gates as Austin Powers. No, really. It was produced for an internal company meeting back in the late '90s or early 00's.
That's amazing, ita, about the lab-grown organs. I don't know how it would work for bottom surgery as for that it would necessarily be someone else's cells, and therefore prone to all the complications of transplant surgery. But amazing nonetheless.
I don't know how it would work for bottom surgery as for that it would necessarily be someone else's cells
If it requires differentiated cells, right? So the next step is to grow stem cells into vaginal cells.
But if you could get cootch cells from your mother or sister, that would be...well, weird, but still.
So the next step is to grow stem cells into vaginal cells.
That is not as implausible as it sounds at first, but I know so very little about the latest stem cell research. I do think the goal, not just in this case but for transplants generally, is finding ways to culture and grow needed organs from the patient's own cells.
I just got back from a haircut, where the stylist told me her sister just had a baby and wound up with a (white fonted for ick) hematoma of the labia. Apparently, it swelled up like a grapefruit .
I mean, since we're talking about vaginas.
Turner syndrome (X0) women have vaginas, so the information in a genetic male's cells should be sufficient without adding any new genes.
I don't know how it would work for bottom surgery as for that it would necessarily be someone else's cells, and therefore prone to all the complications of transplant surgery
Yeah, it was cellls grown on a scaffold--it wasn't specifically "vagina cells", so I don't see why it wouldn't work. Which would be pretty neat, though I don't know how well it would compare to what's already available. Or how much sensation is in those new parts (I mean, blood vessels go there but do nerves grow in? Seems like if they did it would take a long long while and maybe be uncomfortable)