It’s easy to get disillusioned with modern society. Sometimes it feels like humanity as a whole is wasting all of their resources trying to make phones as thin as possible instead of working on medical breakthroughs that could save lives. However, we do occasionally read about an advancement in healthcare that restores my faith in the scientific community.
For example, researchers from Brazil have developed a method of creating artificial vaginas using out of tilapia skin. I’m not talking about the kind of synthetic vagina I keep in a plastic tube under my bed- we’re talking real functioning ones designed to help people with rare genetic disorders.
The method was successfully used to treat a 23-year-old Brazilian woman named Jucilene Marinho who suffers from Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser, a rare congenital disorder that prevents the development of reproductive organs in females. Given the reputation for Brazilians to be sexually adventurous during early adulthood, not having a vagina was a serious burden for Jucilene.
Thankfully, after the successful procedure and a relatively quick recovery, she told reporters her friends promptly took her out so she could “toast [her] new vagina.” Cool!
Using tilapia skin to create a new vagina isn’t just about recycling parts of a commercial fish. The surgery was developed to be cheaper, easier, and safer than currently existing treatments for diseases like MRKH.
Last year we read about a woman from the United States who was also born with the rare disorder that left her as an adult without a vagina. Because of the condition being so rare and the treatment extremely expensive, her insurance classified the corrective surgery as an optional procedure and refused to cover it. After some help from the internet her sister was able to successfully raise the money through donations, granting her the functional vagina she and her boyfriend always dreamed about.
Brazilian doctors hope their method will make treatment for MRKH more accessible to people around the world.
Doctors achieved this breakthrough by studying the healing properties of tilapia skin. They then developed a method of sterilizing the skin and removing the scales making it a translucent, odorless gel that behaves almost like stem cells. After creating a vaginal opening though surgery, they then insert the gel along with an acrylic mold that prevents the wound from closing.
At this point, thanks to sheer scientific magic, the human body then absorbs the tilapia cells creating cellular tissue around the mold similar to the walls of a regular vagina. This new process is not only cheaper than the conventional method, but safer for the patient with a faster recovery time.
After just three months of recuperation, Marinho was fully recovered and given the all clear by her doctors to start having sex. What a time to be alive.
Via nypost.com
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