Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Leave The Foreskins to the Germans

Who said circumcision isn't a positive operation?

German scientists growing skin from baby foreskins

...Scientists at a laboratory in Germany have begun growing human skin from the cells of infant foreskins.

According to the German Herald, the "medical breakthrough" is being used to test cosmetics and other consumer products and could someday replace all animal testing. The so-called Skin Factory, at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, takes foreskin cells donated to the project and uses them to grow the skin, according to spokesman Andreas Traube. More from the Herald:

Scientists extract a single layer of cells from each foreskin and then grow on layers of collagen and connective tissue in the Skin Factory, a sealed growing environment just seven meters, by thee meters, and three meters high and kept at a constant temperature of 37 degrees centigrade.

The scientists use the Skin Factory machine--some 22 feet long, 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide--to grow the new skin. Parents provide the scientists with permission before they are allowed to use the donated foreskins.

But having the Germans involved just doesn't play right.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So many jokes immediately come to mind. Must. Restrain. Myself.

Anonymous said...

Ah screw it. Seems to me that the project is supplied by a bunch of German shmucks!

Hugh7 said...

They are not donated, they are stolen from their owners.