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A man who lost his nose to cancer is growing a new one – on his arm, The Belfast Telegraph reported.
Scientists are using the unnamed man’s bone marrow cells to grow a new nose on two nose-shaped scaffolds in the lab. Professor Alex Seifalian from University College London told Focus Magazine that an extra nose is being made “just in case someone drops one.”
Once the noses are fully grown, one of them will be implanted in the skin on the man’s arm, which will give the nose some skin.
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I bet you can’t touch your elbow to your nose!
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chimney sweep on January 24, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Arm-picker.
James on January 24, 2013 at 6:14 PM
According to family lore… I once had an uncle who removed a nose-cancer polyp with a nail.
Glenn Jericho on January 24, 2013 at 6:31 PM
Flashbacks of a scene from a Woody Allen movie come to mind now, as does a medieval drawing I saw of something similar concerning the crook of a man’s elbow and his nose. Evidently the man had lost a portion of his nose and the drawing depicted a grafting of skin from the inner elbow to the nose. The man’s arm was tied to his head in such a manner as to place his nose in the crook of his arm/elbow, I guess until the graft took. Whether this was a drawing depicting something that had happened or was practiced or was just an idea, I don’t know.
Logus on January 24, 2013 at 6:36 PM
I hope they don’t grow it too close to his armpit so he has to smell his own body odor.
The Rogue Tomato on January 24, 2013 at 6:41 PM
My dog has no nose.
Kensington on January 24, 2013 at 6:57 PM
It’s as plane as the nose on your face…er…arm!
Bigfoot on January 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM
Hopefully not to close to the armpit.
portlandon on January 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM