New 3D-printed penis enables impotent rabbits and pigs to have sex and reproduce

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Researchers 3D-printed a penis and implanted it in impotent rabbits and pigs, enabling them to have sex and reproduce. The animals had penile deformities. First, the bioengineers from the South China University of Technology and colleagues created the synthetic hydrogel penis to better understand the the mechanisms of…