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 ...

You may have seen it in a textbook or on TV: a mouse with a human ear on its back. You might have thought that the mouse was genetically engineered, or deformed, or the result of mad scientists ...

The mice had no significant inflammation or other side-effects. The famous Vacanti mouse of the 1990s also had a human-like ear grown on its back, but it was made by implanting a pre-made plastic ...

“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 ...

Despite the fact that no human cells were used in the ear mouse (the scientists placed cow cells on a polymer shaped like the human ear), the research sparked controversy and raised hopes that ...

In a new development in tissue engineering, they have grown a human-like ear from animal ... had grown an artificial ear, the size of a baby's, on a mouse. In the latest development, published ...

Mouse lacking an immune system with ... The main difference between the research in mice and the human patients is that the scientists created the ear cartilage shape with cells from the patients ...