They implanted the shape of a human ear in the back of a mouse as part of research to better understand how they could help grow body parts for humans. They published their results in 1997 .

Back in 1997, a rather bizarre photograph suddenly became very famous. It showed a totally hairless mouse, with what appeared to be a human ear growing out of its back. That photograph prompted a ...

The bad news: Remember that picture of the mouse with a human ear on its back? It was reported that scientists "grew" that ear there. Well, they didn't. They got the mouse to grow skin over a ...

Have you ever wondered why human ears are built the way they are, and how they came to be? Science has yet to fully uncover ...

Back in the 90s, a deeply disturbing image surfaced on the nascent Internet: a lab mouse with something looking like a human ear grown on its back. Although the “ear” was later proven to be cow ...

The mouse with a human ear on its back may have been one of the more bizarre and visually unsettling experiments carried out on a rodent, but mice have been used for scientific experiments since ...

Mouse-ear hawkweed with long hairs growing on foliage. Although it has a flower stem much the same as hawkbit (unbranched with no foliage and with a yellow flower head), it is easily differentiated ...

In 2022, a 3D-bioprinted ear was implanted into a human for the first time in a clinical trial. “Breaking the barrier of having a 3D-printed living implant placed in a human is enormous,” said ...

They gave it something much smaller — a tiny stretch of human DNA known as HARE5. And in return, the mouse grew a brain about 6.5% bigger than its peers. The tweak was minuscule.