Growing Body Parts

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I have just watched Nip Tuck - the episode where they show the ear grown on the mouse - OMG how can we do that?
 
This little fella!

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L337 LooX said:
Thought this was old news? :confused: genetic engineering and whatnot

There was no genetic engineering involved apparently. That was just the anti-progress mob generating hysteria.
 
loopstah said:
There was no genetic engineering involved apparently. That was just the anti-progress mob generating hysteria.

Correct.

All it is, is normal skin (in this case the mouse's skin) growing in a porus framework in the shape of an ear.

It's all aiming to be used to make real looking ears etc, the same technique will be used using human skin cells to grow over a framework to give patients who have lost their ear to have a cosmetic replacement actually growing on them with real skin.
 
It is just so macabre - looks very sci fi but sci fi gone wrong - the poor thing - it all looks so cruel and is quite frankly horrifying.
 
juju said:
It is just so macabre - looks very sci fi but sci fi gone wrong - the poor thing - it all looks so cruel and is quite frankly horrifying.
It is fairly cruel, but you have to look at it in a 'they are "just" animals' way, although many people I'm sure disagree.

Saying that, I felt like a ******* after experimenting on some tsetse flys last week :o
 
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