DoD Grants $3.4 Million To Fund Face Transplant Surgery, Research

Wasn't that guy in starwars?

"in boston to in an attempt"

Pop Sci has been over-run by retarded hackers from World Weekly News!

I can tell by the lack of proofreading, and the ridiculous claim that Panasonic bought Sony. Please dont smoke the pot until your work is done. That way you can for too be a proud of its work. At least you use spell check.........

He looks like "droopy" . He must have been horribly disfigured for 2 pounds of hanging meat to be an improvement.

You know what would be really funny?

If you guys found Mr. Maki and told him how funny he looks in person.

Better yet, come with me next time I am at the VA Hospital. I'm there a couple of times a month getting my Frankenstein scars examined. You can laugh and point your fingers at kids with missing eyes, ears, legs and hands who weren't even alive when I paid the steep price for my disability benefits.

It would be hilarious.

I dont think that would be funny, but I sure would like to see some Frankenstein scars. Do you have neck bolts too?

Merry Xmas everyone !

QIII, you've spent about as much time in a VA hospital as I have in the ISS. Next time make up more facts to spice up your stories.

Merry X-mas !

@Hherbson: for you, stupidity is a virtue. Your comments, and gossip-like sense of humor, are simply dumb (maybe that's a word you can understand).
Get out of your Jackass Bubble World buddy, and step into the real life.

Sorry, but this is a science-oriented site.
The right place for you is watching The Osbournes, on Fox TV. Maybe that's the reason why your brain doesn't get enough blood irrigation.

You know, it's pretty sad there are people, nay strike that, teenagers mocking a man who put his life on the line so that we could enjoy simple Constitutional rights like the 1st amendment. That man is a hero and nothing less.

Here here, quite right! Well done sir.

An anonymous poster is your hero based on his claims? The lemmings have come home to roost. I have 17 confirmed kills, and probably another 6 or so that bled out later. Does that make me a hero? Do you know why most people join the military?

1. No other decent job available to them.
2. Adventure
3. Pay for college

I did it for 2&3. At night I sleep like a baby. Sometimes I see their faces but it doesnt bother me. I even took out 3 at one time with an M203 grenade launcher. High efficiency there!

I didnt do it for birkenstock wearing, subaru driving, kashi eating flakes like you. I did it because that was my job and to protecting my buds.

I dont care if you believe me or not, so save your keystrokes.

Sgt x
11B, 71D

Flake #1 said "Maybe that's the reason why your brain doesn't get enough blood irrigation."

Good one professor, and you call me dumb? The brain doesnt get irrigated, the term is perfusion at the blood/brain barrier. Wounds are irrigated (that means washed out). I enjoyed your post, please continue!

Hherbson,

Only God, and you, know why you are so angry at life.
You are the type of person that makes fun of a Down kid; a guy who misses a limb; a senior with Alzheimer‘s disease, …

You do need professional help my friend.

Whether you were raped by a catholic priest, or whether your drunken daddy used to beat the hell out of you.
Whatever form of abuse you’ve experienced as a kid, a Psychiatrist might get you out of your personal hell.
Perhaps you will even learn the meaning of the word “respect”, and put it into practice.

May God bless you, and keep you from entering a McDonald’s with an AK-47 rifle.

Haha this is the best one yet! I love life, love flying my plane, and am in a great relationship. I've never been happier, honestly. Its not surprising that a "christian" would start making condescending inferences about a person they dont even know. Your make believe god killed more people than any war. Take Noah and his family for example, god the loving killed the rest of the humans because they were evil. So every child, mother, and grandmother were evil? If god were real as depicted in the bible he is an arrogant homicidal murderer with a bad temper, who incompetently designed the human body. He doesnt deserve praise, but ridicule and scorn. I used to be a christian, but I just couldnt keep my head in the sand any longer.

I post on this site for something to do, and because it is filled with kooks. Would Jesus want you to judge me. Btw, when an insurgent gets shot they always look so surprised, like they didnt think it could happen in a firefight. Except for head-shots, they just look sleepy. May god bless them all, and give them new sandals to walk on those streets of 24k gold!

Humm along if you know the words "You got shoes, I got shoes, all gods chillen got shoes"

To all allied veterans and active duty in "the big litterbox" thanks for doing the job that these people are unable/unwilling to do. You are noble warriors and you have a lot of friends back home who cant wait to see you again. Hope you had a decent X-mas, and someday you will look back at your life and realize you were making history and all the adventures, both good and bad along the way, will give you a much clearer picture of how the world works. Dont get discouraged, they might find an honest Iraqi yet.

Hherbson,

That last post is the best one yet, too bad I don't believe a word of it. I was one of the lucky ones that was able to be home for x-mas. Hope your plane crashes and burns, people like you get hurt in friendly fire. And I know the fine soldier in the picture above. As a vet I expect more from you, than again your full of shit.

Hherbson: No offence, but you really sound like an angry person, in the very least cynical, despite what you say. Despite there reasons for fighting the men and woman of our armed forces still faught to defend our country and they deserve respect. Honestly even you deserve some thanks if you faught in Iraq. It is not our reasons or our intentions that define us it is our actions.

As for the article, I think it is great that they can give some of our injured veterans who have been disfigured there dignity back not to mention the fact that it could also help people in the civilian world as well.

AG1284, you say I'm full of it, yet you say you know the fine soldier pictured above? He was in a {subway} accident. Did you even bother reading the article? Yet you hope I get killed? Why, because I think the technology of face transplanting is horribly crude at this point?

I doubt you were even in the military due to your "friendly fire" comment. Thats pure hollywood. Real soldiers wouldn't shoot a comrade they dislike, and in real life they do a forensic investigation and recover the bullets/schrapnel. Our bullets are different from their bullets, and can be ballistically matched to the firing weapon.

Maybe you should re-read the comments. Just because some overly dramatic poster claims to be an injured vet doesn't mean that he is, or that I am for that matter. To the poster that claimed to have "frankenstein scars" would you mind telling me the name of the ointment they gave you for healing?

Guess I got a little pissed off. Meant to say I know the guy in the picture and it's messed up that you made the comments you did about him, then the one about the soldier. I don't think James is Vet, he has never mentioned it. Is that better for you. People like you sicken me so I get a little over the top, if you know what I mean and I think you do. And yes I am in the service and I am do back on the 4th. And yes the procedure is crude but to laugh at the guy, show some respect. I Didn't say soldiers shoot their own, accidents happen, just wishing it upon you. "friendly fire" is a term used not just in Hollywood but also among civilians and servicemen alike. Besides the term more easily understood.

I am suprised that this tecnique is so young, because the consept has been arround for a while. In the end what need's to happen is for someone to have this procedure, and not have to take the immunosuppresant drugs for the rest of their life. The question that needs to be asked is
could the patient have a new face grown using his/her DNA, making rejection less likely? If not could gene therapy be used, using the donor tissue as a key? Maybe tecnology hasn't come that far yet, but at least they could create a refillable delivery system implanted under the skin that could drip those medicines into the blood stream giving freedom to many. To only have to go in monthly, or weekly to have it refilled Could give many a sense of normalacy at least for a little while. Also I have a theory, Since blood, and the immune system is created in the marrow of a bone, could something be done to the bones of a body to alter the production. Making white blood cells that are able to recognize the foreign tissue and not attack it. If this could be done it could help many who have had transplants of any kind.

roflcopter i love comment fights/arguments

I believe a good way using current technology would be to clone the patient. For limbs and a face obviously you would have to wait till the clone was a teenager, but science could probably accelerate growth rates.

This way there would be no rejection and the clone could be kept alive for future use. I think the Christian thing to do would be to neutralize the clones higher brain functions so it doesn't attain consciousness and self awareness. Since God obviously exists and answers prayer (it says so in the Bible) we could pray that they are healed. God performs medical miracles every day, so maybe soon he'll start regenerating lost limbs and eyes. We just have to believe and pray.