Dr. Stephen Badylak is a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, and he’s the deputy director of the McGowan institute for regenerative medicine. He began his career at Purdue University in 1983, and has practiced both veterinary and human medicine. Over the last 20 years, and initially in animals, Dr. Badylak has pioneered the medical application of tissue growth technology. He is famous for r his work regrowing portions of esophagi, tendons, bladders, blood vessels, and even hearts. Dr. Badylak has earned 50 U.S. patents, 200 patents globally, and has authored more than 200 scientific publications.
Good video!
Would love to see him on board with foregen!
It is going to be difficult ,all these important doctors want to be remembered in the history for regenerating hearts, livers, bladders, kidneys and so on………i am afraid he is one of those who considers foreskin almost useless
It doesn’t matter if he is ignorant about the importance of the foreskin so long as others can make use of the technology he develops to help men who know.
Ok really? If they’ve regrown fully functional muscle and tendons in the quadricep, which is arguably one of the biggest muscles in the body, then regrowing a fully functional foreskin should be more of a reality than we all thought. I’m hearing muscle, hearts, esophagi, bladders have all been regrown over the years. What is stopping us from foreskin? If you ask me, a heart is way more complex than foreskin.
One problem I can see is that I have heard circumcision at birth begins the degeneration of nerves to the spinal cord….
in other words the rich treasures of nerves lost their constant connection the the brain..regeneration must include reattaching the nerves to the brain…
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That won’t be a problem. Temporarily deactivating the gene P21 allows the body to regenerate any lost body part.
Read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7448557/Humans-could-regrow-body-parts-like-some-amphibians.html
And remember that the body is dynamic not static, therefore it is possible that regenerated foreskin can fuse with other nerve pathways (based on the assumption that nerves degenerate from lack of use). And it has been proven that nerves do grow back (even in the brain).
Thank you so much, that just made my day!
darn foreskin haters
The question at the end of this video is not altogether encouraging for those of us in the US. This technology has quite a history, but the regulatory and political environment is a huge barrier. If they can’t even get esophagi and muscle tissue applications on the fast track, I fear foreskins will be very far in the future. I’m still thankful foregen is working on it. Perhaps it will be the wildcard.
The technology already exists. The medical system is going to try to hold back technology like this for as long as possible. They don’t want healthy people. This is because they don’t make money from healthy people, they make money from sick people.
Eventually people are going to realize that this technology is out there and they will demand to be treated with it, instead of allowing the system to keep them sick and alive for decades, making money the whole time.
USA is only a small fraction of the world,if we can’t make it here,we can always make it elsewhere
I agree completely. If I have to go to China to regenerate I will. If I have to go to Brazil, Germany or any other country I will. The technology already exists and nobody can stop it.
I’d gladly go overseas to get treatment, even as a test subject. I don’t enjoy sex right now, and I’ll do whatever it takes as soon as someone says it’s ready.
Has Foregen looked at other countries?
It’s at least encouraging to know that such progress is being made. As regeneration becomes less mysterious, our goal will become closer to realization.
I found a video of the December 15, 2011
There’s it’s new and old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLFUEEs2ouM
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April 26 – 28,2012
Symposium on Biologic Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine
http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/events/2012_Meetings/2012scaffoldssymposium.asp
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I just wish I could contribute more. Foregen is all about taking things into our own hands. If everybody gives what they can, at least we will have a fighting chance to make something happen.
Yeah I agree but we can only do so much before the government of our own countries gets involved. Thats not saying anything bad about them getting involved, it’s just that they take forever to do anything like this. The technology already exists but it isn’t being used for this right now so they might just put it aside for “Later”. Has anyone checked out http://www.indiegogo.com/ ? I’d like to hear what Foregen members and workers think about this option.
I’ve got to ask and I hope a member of the Foregen staff will be able to help me out here, but is using a device like the TLC Tugger a good idea if I was to later get the procedure done? Would that cause any problems that we already can predict before hand? I would really like to know so I can make up my mind if it’s a good idea to beging restoring now or if I should wait until this procedure is available.
I can only speak for myself, but personally I am currently restoring. I know that the technology to regenerate alredy exists, but I don’t have access to it right now. So I am doing the 2nd best thing which is restoring. I don’t see any reason why they can’t just remove the restored “foreskin” and replace it with a real, regenerated foreskin.
Good point, I guess it’s a good idea to try and restore until the procedure is available to the public then. Thanks alot
wouldn’t the nerves in the shaft be less concentrated though?
That is another question I had but I guess it would be smart to just wait for these kind of answers. I’m sure someone at Foregen would have the answers, it would be cool if they had a kind of info tab that talked about the pros and cons of restoring vs. regeneration.
I think the nerves in a restored “foreskin” may be less concentrated. But I think that all the restored tissue could be removed to make room for regeneration. Once new tissue is regenerated it should be the same as the original.