Finally, a use for all those discarded foreskins

[Faithfree]

.. as a cure for baldness!

A paper published on Tuesday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US describes how researchers successfully grew human hair follicles in the laboratory using circumcised foreskins.

The process involved culturing altered human cells within tissue from the circumcised foreskins of newborns and grafting the resulting structures on to the backs of mice.

Previous studies have found that adult rodent dermal papillae, which control hair follicle growth, can be grown in the laboratory, transplanted into recipient skin and made to trigger new hair follicles and fibres.

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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-te ... 2vx0a.html


Not as simple as just pasting foreskins over the dome, you gotta have mice - they're the secret ingredient.

[mistermack]

This is absolutely crazy.
The foreskin of a mouse must be incredibly tiny, and why are they circumcising them anyway?
They will do anything to appease the Islamists. It's political correctness gone mad.

[rachelbean]

[Bella Fortuna]

for both commentaries...

[Blind groper]

The best use for discarded foreskins is to sew them together to make a purse. The great value is that, if you rub the purse, it becomes a suitcase.

[mistermack]

Nothing yet in my mousetraps.
It's probably just as well. My eyesight's not up to circumcising mice these days.
And anyway, it could be embarrassing if female mice began to find my scalp irresistible.

[Faithfree]

Nothing yet in my mousetraps.
It's probably just as well. My eyesight's not up to circumcising mice these days.
And anyway, it could be embarrassing if female mice began to find my scalp irresistible.

You need to find yourself a good mouse plague -

- and carry a stick to beat off those female mice.

[mistermack]

Nothing yet in my mousetraps.
It's probably just as well. My eyesight's not up to circumcising mice these days.
And anyway, it could be embarrassing if female mice began to find my scalp irresistible.

You need to find yourself a good mouse plague -

- and carry a stick to beat off those female mice.

That's a sad picture.
They're all dead, and the mice are still going strong.

And was it cold in Oz back in those days? They look a bit overdressed for the weather.

[Faithfree]

And was it cold in Oz back in those days? They look a bit overdressed for the weather.

Pullut is way down JimC's way in Victoria, where you can happily have four seasons in one day, or more like in one hour. Pullut is one of those places where there were two farm houses relatively close together so they called it a town. On the subject of mice, when I was a wee nipper we lived in an old house where there were bullet holes in the skirting boards because the previous occupant used to shoot mice while sitting at the kitchen table.

Anyway, this is all getting sidetracked from a serious scientific discovery ...

[Mysturji]

What a fucking useless line of research! Who the fuck wants hair on their knob?
Around the base, sure, but WTF?

[Faithfree]

What a fucking useless line of research! Who the fuck wants hair on their knob?
Around the base, sure, but WTF?

It saves on buying French ticklers.

[mistermack]

Anyway, this is all getting sidetracked from a serious scientific discovery ...

I agree. This could be just the start. They might be able to use the same technology to grow you a new foreskin.

One covered in fine rodent fur might prove quite an attraction with the ladies.

[Mysturji]

Anyway, this is all getting sidetracked from a serious scientific discovery ...

I agree. This could be just the start. They might be able to use the same technology to grow you a new foreskin.

One covered in fine rodent fur might prove quite an attraction with the ladies.

Mink?

[Robert_S]

Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’” (1 Samuel 18:25, ESV)

[mistermack]

I agree. This could be just the start. They might be able to use the same technology to grow you a new foreskin.

One covered in fine rodent fur might prove quite an attraction with the ladies.

Mink?

I imagine that mink would be popular with the ladies. Although you can't be sure. I've often had mine compared to skunk, but with mixed results.