According to a popular myth, God grew the First Woman from a rib bone of the First man. Leave it to the Germans to take a fairytale as an engineering challenge...

German surgeons recently grew a new jaw bone in a man's back muscle in order to transplant it into his mouth to replace the jaw bone he lost to cancer. A titanium mesh cage was imbedded under the patient's shoulder blade, and injections of a growth chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing stem cells, were used to stimulate development of a jaw bone that fit precisely into the gap from his cancer surgery.

While artificial jaw implants pose significant risk of infection, and generally involve significant pain for a long time after implantation, this patient's biggest complaint has been that the lack of teeth on his new lower jaw forces him to cut his steak into such small pieces that it is cold by the time he finishes. Fortunately, he should be able to have teeth fastened into the new jaw within a year or so, assuming no further complications arrise.

Dr. Heinz Von Evil, lead surgeon on the jaw-growing team, has been quoted in the DeathKoala Daily Bugle, "Today a jaw, tomorrow a race of rock-bone hybrid zombie super babies with which to conquer the world!"