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New 3D-printed penis enables impotent rabbits and pigs to have sex and reproduce
Researchers 3D-printed a penis and implanted it in impotent rabbits and pigs, enabling them to have sex and reproduce. The animals had penile deformities. First, the bioengineers from the South China University of Technology and colleagues created the synthetic hydrogel penis to better understand the the mechanisms of blood flow and erectile dysfunction. — Read the rest The post New 3D-printed penis enables impotent rabbits and pigs to have sex …
A New Bionic Hand Can Tell What It's Touching, Just Like A Human
A new prosthetic hand offers strength, grasps objects with control, and detects textures, coming the closest yet to mimicking human touch. It significantly outperforms traditional prosthetics, which forces amputees to make compromises. With traditional prosthetics, they can choose between gentleness or gripping power, but neither option allows them to feel what they’re touching. Now, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have made a breakthr…
Until now, creating a fully functional artificial penis seemed like the stuff of science fiction. But now, an international collaboration has produced just such an organ. So far, it has only been possible to reproduce it in animals, but according to the authors of the research, it is an important step towards creating a similar implant in humans.
The future of medicine may well include prosthetic penises that can be printed on demand. In a study this month, scientists have shown that their 3D printed penile implant can restore sexual function in animals. Researchers from the United States, Japan and China conducted the study, published last week in Nature Biomedical Engineering. In experiments with pigs and rabbits who had damaged penile tissue, their 3D printed gel implant allowed injur…
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