Comments on: Success! Functioning Anal Sphincter Grown in a Petri Dish http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natalie W. Rogers http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-72548 Natalie W. Rogers Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:00:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18735#comment-72548 In all seriousness, it is a good thing as lots of folks who have had to deal with removal of parts of the bowel as it might lead to a replacement organs rather than the alternative which is a poop sack or in polite medical terms, a Colostomy bag. Still though, it would have been poetic if these were grown in the orbit of Uranus. In all seriousness, it is a good thing as lots of folks who have had to deal with removal of parts of the bowel as it might lead to a replacement organs rather than the alternative which is a poop sack or in polite medical terms, a Colostomy bag.

Still though, it would have been poetic if these were grown in the orbit of Uranus.

]]> By: Pookle http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-72541 Pookle Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:11:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18735#comment-72541 This could save hundreds of politicians' lives in the future. (That's where I assumed we'd be culling a-holes) This could save hundreds of politicians’ lives in the future. (That’s where I assumed we’d be culling a-holes)

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-72482 Brian Too Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:52:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18735#comment-72482 Do you think the successful researchers who did this were anal retentive, or anal compulsive? Do you think the successful researchers who did this were anal retentive, or anal compulsive?

]]> By: peretz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-72465 peretz Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:48:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18735#comment-72465 video please! video please!

]]> By: xiika http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/08/10/success-functioning-anal-sphincter-grown-in-a-petri-dish/comment-page-1/#comment-72459 xiika Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:54:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18735#comment-72459 GREAT news! We're all going to need this one day! GREAT news! We’re all going to need this one day!

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