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The maverick scientist who's making ears out of APPLES: Bizarre project could grow cheap body parts from leftover produce

The maverick scientist who's making ears out of APPLES: Bizarre project could grow cheap body parts from leftover produce | Bioscience News - GEG Tech top picks | Scoop.it
From www.dailymail.co.uk - September 5, 2016 5:47 AM

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097835

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Andrew Pelling runs his own lab at Ottawa University. One of his projects involves creating human ears out of cells taken from apples. The ears cannot hear, but are the same shape and made of human cells.

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3D Bioprinting Human Ears, First Affordable Tesla Only Big Enough For Kids - Forbes

3D Bioprinting Human Ears, First Affordable Tesla Only Big Enough For Kids - Forbes | Bioscience News - GEG Tech top picks | Scoop.it
From www.forbes.com - February 24, 2016 1:25 PM
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For the first time ever, scientists have been able to 3D print functional, vascularized tissue made with human cells and plastic materials. Yeah, they 3D printed a human ear, and it is as creepy as you imagine it might be… 

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