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doctors grow a vagina inside a vagina

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GTaudiophile said:
And what does this imply for those who are transgendered and want a vagina?
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This was the next logical question, however I think the implication is that it likely won't be possible considering the following snippet:

Atala's team took samples from the women's vulvas and grew them on a degradable scaffold made of collagen in a lab. Once they'd reached the right level of maturity, the doctors inserted the engineered vagina into a cavity they'd formed in the patients' abdomens. The scaffold was attached to the uterus and a stent was used to hold it in place for the first six weeks. After just six months, the vagina was fully developed. Depending on the patient, Atala waited between four and eight years before publishing his findings to ensure there were no complications. There weren't.
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Given a male A) doesn't have a vulva and B) doesn't have the proper genetics to actually develop into female anatomy and C) doesn't have the proper internal anatomy to connect shit to, I think that we'd be venturing into the land of "donor parts" which then comes with the risk of rejection and ongoing maintenance issues (drugs, etc).

That said, there may be the possibility given that physiological gender development has been somewhat proven to be driven more by environmental factors than by genetics.
 
These are being grown in the abdominal cavities of women who do not have vaginas.

Thread title doesn't make sense.
 
Murloc said:
misleading thread title
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This. It was grown inside the patient's abdomens. :awe:

The patients were all women born without functioning vaginas due to a rare but severe condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome. While they all had vulvas, the external part of the female sex organs, they didn't have a vaginal cavity, meaning they couldn't menstruate or have sex. There were also, obviously, psychological effects.Using a technique first developed on rabbits—where, funnily enough, the first solid organ grown was a penis—Atala's team took samples from the women's vulvas and grew them on a degradable scaffold made of collagen in a lab. Once they'd reached the right level of maturity, the doctors inserted the engineered vagina into a cavity they'd formed in the patients' abdomens. The scaffold was attached to the uterus and a stent was used to hold it in place for the first six weeks. After just six months, the vagina was fully developed. Depending on the patient, Atala waited between four and eight years before publishing his findings to ensure there were no complications. There weren't.
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