Talk:Vaginal transplantation

A fact from Vaginal transplantation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 May 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that four women who received lab-grown vagina transplants recently reported normal function during sexual intercourse?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vaginal transplantation.

Wikipedia

Medicine Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women's Health

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's Health, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's Health on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HealthWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HealthTemplate:WikiProject Women's Healthwomen's health articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

Rename?

Consider renaming "Vaginal tissue engineering"? It isn't really a transplant if it doesn't come from a donor. --Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 22:40, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not so sure. Per our organ transplantation article (bold added): "Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site to another location on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be re-grown from the patient's own cells (stem cells, or cells extracted from the failing organs). Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted within the same person's body are called autografts."

It would seem to be this fits into that broad definition of a transplant, although I am not totally opposed to renamed either. Moving would also necessitate removing the (small) bit on the mother-daughter donor case. (For what it worth, penis transplantation covers both donor & lab-grown penises.) --ThaddeusB (talk) 18:51, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]