It’s possible to grow new vaginas and noses for patients from their own cells, according to a recently released study in the respected medical journal The Lancet.

The vagina study noted that several disorders, including cancer and injury, can require reconstructive techniques.

It focused on four Mexican teenagers who were born with a rare disorder that meant they didn’t have vaginas and followed them over a three-year period.

Tissue the size of a postage stamp was taken from each of them and grown and molded in a laboratory.

The study concluded that the vaginas, made from the patients’ own cells, functioned normally.

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“A validated self-administered Female Sexual Function Index questionnaire showed variables in the normal range in all areas tested, such as desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and painless intercourse,” the article states.

This technique could benefit women who require vaginal reconstruction, it notes.

“We cultured, expanded and seeded epithelial and muscle cells onto biodegradable scaffolds,” the study states. “The organs were constructed an allowed to mature in an incubator in a facility approved for human-tissue manufacturing.”

The study recorded success in follow-ups, which lasted up to eight years. Follow-ups included MRIs and physical examinations.

“We noted no long-term postoperative surgical complications,” the article continues.

The study was jointly funded by Wake Forest University and the Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez.

In another study reported in the current issue of The Lancet, new noses were constructed for two women and three men in Switzerland from other cartilage in their bodies, including ribs and ears.

“After one year, all patients were satisfied with the aesthetic and functional outcomes and no adverse events had been recorded,” the study concludes. “Cutaneous sensibility and structural stability of the reconstructed area were clinically satisfactory, with adequate respiratory function.”

Doctors have already created windpipes, bladders and blood vessels from patients’ cells and then successfully implanted them.

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There are hopes that the process can be used to created complicated body parts like lungs and kidneys.