18 years in the construction, Dr Antony Atala's mission to give rise to healthy functioning penises for patients inconvenience from penile cancer, major penile injuries and erectile dysfunction has successfully been achieved.
Although still early in his studies, Dr Atala and his team of researchers wish successfully managed to grow penises ~ the sake of injured rabbits using smooth muscle cells (that help penis tissues to relax during an erection) and endothelial cells (that line blood vessels) extracted from woven stuff samples.
Performed at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Dr Atala designed a 3 dimensional penis shaped scaffold to help mould the growth of these tissues to render certain that when they were attached to their male animal hosts, they would help them to mate, ejaculate and ultimately procreate.
And according to familiar medical journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences', this endeavour has proven to be every bit of a success!
Growing these cony penises over a 3-4 week date, once these 12 rabbits had been given enough time to recover from having their penises replaced through their engineered counterparts, their mating habits were observed one month, three months and six months rear the surgery.
