Vacanti mouse
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vacanti-mouse-179-7653876
title:
Vacanti mouse
text:
The Vacanti mouse was a laboratory mouse (circa 1996) that had what looked like a human ear grown on its back. The "ear" was actually an ear-shaped cartilage structure grown by seeding cow cartilage cells into biodegradable ear-shaped mold and then implanted under the skin of the mouse, with an external ear-shaped splint to maintain the desired shape. Then the cartilage naturally grew by itself within the restricted shape and size. The splint was removed briefly to take the publicity pictures, w
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Bioengineering project
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse
date created:
2006-08-27T07:55:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T23:39:47Z
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