In 1997, the scientific world got their first glimpse of the ‘Vacanti mouse’ - an eerie, hairless mouse with a human-sized ear growing out of its back. Despite the public controversy that the experiment initially faced over animal ethics, the techniques used by the researchers to achieve this feat brought medical research one step closer to an exciting goal: generating organs in the lab.
The Mouse with an Ear Growing out of its Back
The Mouse with an Ear Growing out of its Back
The Mouse with an Ear Growing out of its Back
In 1997, the scientific world got their first glimpse of the ‘Vacanti mouse’ - an eerie, hairless mouse with a human-sized ear growing out of its back. Despite the public controversy that the experiment initially faced over animal ethics, the techniques used by the researchers to achieve this feat brought medical research one step closer to an exciting goal: generating organs in the lab.