Its sometimes how horrifying to watch what science can do Dr. Charles Vacanti of the University of Massachusetts grew a human ear on the back of a mouse with the assistance of Dr. Linda Griffith-Cima from MIT.This was a great achievement to develop such an human tissue on the mouse ear asserting the connections s and similarity in human and mouse geno\type . The study was done at the suggestion of a plastic surgeon who was interested in developing techniques for attaching ears in children who had external ear deformities or had lost ears in accidents. It was designed to serves as a model for tissue engineering.
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