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Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant

posted by martyb on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the hear-here! dept.

takyon writes:

New Ear Grown on Soldier's Forearm in First-of-its-kind Army Surgery

U.S. Army surgeons have grown a new ear on soldier's forearm to replace one that was lost in a car accident.

Doctors at William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC) in El Paso, Texas, took cartilage from the soldier's ribs to craft a new ear. This was then inserted under the skin of the forearm so that it could grow.

The groundbreaking technique—the first procedure of its kind in the Army—allows the ear to form new arteries, veins and even nerves, meaning the private should eventually regain sensation in the ear.

"The whole goal is by the time she's done with all this, it looks good, it's sensate, and in five years if somebody doesn't know her they won't notice," Lt. Col. Owen Johnson III, chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at WBAMC, said in a statement.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:10PM (#678143)

    but cooooool

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Snow on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:18PM

    by Snow (1601) on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:18PM (#678145) Journal

    https://www.medicaldaily.com/scientists-use-stem-cells-grow-human-ear-rats-back-371176 [medicaldaily.com]

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:39PM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:39PM (#678157) Journal

    It's like Adam in the Bible. Adam was very lonely and very horny. So God took parts of Adam and made them into Eve. Right? And now my Army doctors are very, very close to that. They didn't make a whole woman. But they made an ear. And perhaps they can make another body part!!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:25PM (#678174)

      In the Navy, they grow a pussy inside a seaman's ass.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:57PM (#678159)

    grow a brain inside a buzzard's skull?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:10PM (#678162)

      No.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:02PM (#678160)

    So our site mascot and village dickhead Michael David Crawford can finally grow a real live penis on his head??

    • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:13PM (#678164)

      MDC likes to strap a vibrator to his cranium and pay young women who are young enough to be his daughters to pleasure themselves.

  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:11PM (2 children)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:11PM (#678163) Homepage Journal

    Can you hear me now?

    --
    jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:55PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 10 2018, @11:55PM (#678189)

    Depending on the ear's position on the forearm, listening to her heart lets you grab different parts.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @02:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @02:17AM (#678243)

      Sure makes this limmrick more attainable.

      There once was a man from Nantucket.
      Whose dick was so long he could suck it.
      He said with a grin
      As he wiped off his chin
      If my ear was a cunt i could fuck it.

    • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Friday May 11 2018, @01:05PM

      by Rivenaleem (3400) on Friday May 11 2018, @01:05PM (#678344)

      Many people thought the fact that I kept my heart on my sleeve was an endearing quality. Others only complained about the blood dripping everywhere.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @12:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @12:13AM (#678199)

    But where to grow them? Forehead?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26AM (#678205)

      Right smack dab on top of your clitoris.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @07:17AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @07:17AM (#678288)

        I'm a man trapped in a woman's body - I can't find my clitoris.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Muad'Dave on Friday May 11 2018, @12:00PM

    by Muad'Dave (1413) on Friday May 11 2018, @12:00PM (#678322)

    Does the title seem a little misleading?

    They didn't grow an actual outer ear, they grew an outer ear shaped piece of cartilage. I was expecting to read about them taking a stem cell and inducing it to grow into an actual anatomically correct outer ear, not a simulacrum of one.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @09:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @09:28PM (#678573)

    Why didn't you grow the ear on the side of her head where it belongs. Is it because then you wouldn't get to bill the taxpayers for another operation?

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