Breasts may be grown in lab thanks to gene find

[emad]

Breasts may be grown in lab thanks to gene find
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 01/09/2005)

A gene that triggers the growth of breasts has been discovered which could one day enable technicians to grow mammary tissue in the lab for cosmetic surgery or for reconstructive surgery after breast cancer.

Initially, the scientists who discovered the gene are going to use it to shed light on the causes of breast cancer and why some people have extra nipples and breasts, which occur in about one person in every 18.

The team from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre has named it the Scaramanga gene, after the three-nippled villain from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.

The gene makes a growth factor that triggers breast and nipple growth and has important implications for breast cancer, as reported in the journal Genes and Development. In the disease it is thought that long-lived stem cells, which replenish cells in the body, start growing uncontrollably.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/01/nbreast01.xml


WHAT organs would YOU wish to grow in a lab?

[defiant1]

1. Uh, none???

That's just creepy.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. You mean I could get a second Man-Boob?

Awesome, dude!

--p!

[mainegreen]

3. Whoah!

One people in 18 have an extra nipple and/or breast? I did not know that.

(shiftily looking at co-workers to try and figure out which one has the extra nipple)

[emad]

4. As in Total Recall?

Think that was what the movie was called....

[Spinzonner]

5. If I only had a brain

[KittyWampus]

6. kind of a whimsical thread title,but good news for breast cancer survivors

[ret5hd]

7. think what this will do for the "adult novelty" store industry!

[miss_kitty]

8. organs destroyed orFUBAR by illness or injury

I was born too early to get in on this :cry:

[WeRQ4U]

9. I'd grow myself I shiney new pancreas....and then eat 5gal of ice cream.

The 'betes sucks.

[Guy Fawkes]

10. Can I get a spare stomach?

You know, for doughnut binges and such...

[BlueIris]

11. I know what I want a new one of. But I'm not posting it here.

Too personal. And please don't ask. I'll just say that it would make me a much more loveable/loving person.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

15. much more loveable/loving?

damn thats a hard one to figure out. Can't think of a body part which could hamper beeing loveable/loving. I wish for you to get your replacement one time if you indeed feel so strongly that it impairs your loving ability and makes you perceive yourself as beeing less loveable (which i'm sure does not).

No question asked ma'am but you'll just have to undergo this...:hug:


BTW i'd take a new thyroid, i hate those replacement pills and the dependancy on pharma to survive

[jmowreader]

12. A heart and a brain

Since George Bush has neither, someone should churn him out a set.

[Hugin]

13. Have they got hair yet?

Why do I ask? Well, no reason really...

It's not for me, it's for a friend.

;)

[Fleshdancer]

14. and in related news:

A London scientist has locked himself in a lab and has refused to leave.