Comments on: Bear-Attack Victim Gets Successful Face Transplant http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:21:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christina Viering http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/comment-page-1/#comment-26648 Christina Viering Mon, 11 May 2009 02:19:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/#comment-26648 Truly amazing work. Truly amazing work.

]]> By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/comment-page-1/#comment-3661 Eliza Strickland Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:49:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/#comment-3661 You're not the only one wondering if stem cells could be used in this context. The <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5il4qlI62UWuVdQ-az7K0N7OvGEoQD92MVHI00" rel="nofollow">AP article</a> quotes a doctor who is still skeptical of face-transplant operations: "Dr. Patrick Warnke, a plastic surgeon at the University of Kiel in Germany, calls them a 'dead-end road,' because he doesn't think the rejection problem can be solved. Instead, he hopes to re-grow tissue from patients' own stem cells." You’re not the only one wondering if stem cells could be used in this context. The AP article quotes a doctor who is still skeptical of face-transplant operations:

“Dr. Patrick Warnke, a plastic surgeon at the University of Kiel in Germany, calls them a ‘dead-end road,’ because he doesn’t think the rejection problem can be solved. Instead, he hopes to re-grow tissue from patients’ own stem cells.”

]]> By: Jef http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/comment-page-1/#comment-3658 Jef Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:18:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/22/bear-attack-victim-gets-successful-face-transplant/#comment-3658 This reminds me of the Robert Lanza article. Perhaps if the roadblocks are removed from those studies we can eventually grow enough of the patient's own skin to perform these types of operations. This reminds me of the Robert Lanza article. Perhaps if the roadblocks are removed from those studies we can eventually grow enough of the patient’s own skin to perform these types of operations.

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