“A complete, functioning breast has been grown from a single stem cell, by researchers in Australia. It was done in a mouse, but experts believe it won’t be long before it happens in humans. ‘Until now, no one has been able to take one cell and make it do everything involved in a fully-functioning, milk-producing breast,’ notes postdoctoral fellow Kaylene Simpson, who set up the experiment before moving to Harvard Medical School… Comparing the differences in development between normal and tumorous breasts could lead to new treatments that attack the earliest stages of breast cancer. Simpson also mentions the possibility of growing new breasts to replace those lost to surgery. As such medical applications become more likely, commercial interest in using stem cells to enhance breast size could also grow larger… Also on the horizon is the possibility of injecting breast stem cells into women whose breasts have been partially or completely removed by surgery, in the hope of growing new breasts without the insidious tumor factory cells. Successes like that would unavoidably lead to a demand for customized breasts. Simpson admits that at times her fellow researchers in Australia joked that such a possibility would make them rich some day. But now, she says, ‘Such an application is far from reality at this point.’” — Harvard University Gazette (US)

Hearing that researchers can grow a breast from a single cell is like hearing that alchemists have figured out a way to turn lead into gold. It’s simply amazing! Much of the article is filled with technical detail about marker proteins and fluorescent dyes — Dr. Simpson compares actual breast tissue to “a bunch of grapes in a big blob of fat” — but those suggestions for future applications of breast-growth technology simply dazzle. For example, longtime readers will be aware that PervScan generally frowns upon breast implants because they’re often unhealthy for the person getting them and they don’t feel good in the hands of a lover either. (Of all the weird fetishes in the world, have you ever heard of a fetish for breast implants?) But imagine if implants could be replaced by custom-grown breasts, “natural” ones that were not harmful to the bearer and that would feel like real breasts because they are real breasts? You can’t argue against that.

And in addition to the obvious uses for such a technology, you can only imagine that it will give rise to all sorts of unforeseen innovations as well. For example, have you ever seen worry beads? Well, imagine if instead of a string of beads to keep your hands busy you could keep a breast in a little vase sort of thing with the appropriate systems to maintain it. Wouldn’t massaging a breast be a fine way to work out your anxieties? Or do you remember that fad for pet rocks? Maybe people would want to have a pet tit. Or maybe other people would want to buy celebrity tits. You could order breasts modelled after those of Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez and collect them the same way kids collect baseball cards.

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