The true story is, I thought the visual image of having a human ear on the back of a mouse would be too controversial. So I asked my brother, people in my lab, and Bob not to bring up the mouse ...

“Earmouse” or the Vacanti mouse, as the animal has become known, continued to grow the piece of tissue out of its back until it resembled the size and shape of a human ear. The team published ...

When an image of this mouse-grown “ear”— actually a piece ... currently testing the technique of growing cartilage into ears on human patients.) Now, a team of researchers from the U.S ...