God damnit I found it! May I present... human... animal... HYBRID!!!

[Jara sang]

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/briefs/9510/10-26/

MASSACHUSETTS (CNN) -- Researchers in Massachusetts have created something that sounds more like science fiction than science fact. They've taken a prototype human ear made of polyester fabric and human cartilage cells, and implanted it on the back of a hairless mouse.

The mouse's tissue nourished the ear while the cartilage grew to replace the fiber. Scientists hope the technology will someday help them routinely regrow ears, noses, skin, bones, and even internal organs.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Friends, Romans, Scientists ...

... lend me ...

Oh, never mind!

--p!

[samhsarah]

2. Holy crap!

wierd.

[laheina]

24. That's exactly what I said.

:)

[Cleita]

3. I remember reading about this a few years back.

Have any of these parts been actually used? Or, did they find out that the mouse genes weren't compatible? I don't remember seeing any follow up articles on this.

[LittleClarkie]

27. I have a friend who works in a lab putting mouse hearts on mouse ears

or something like that.

[rucky]

4. I almost like it, simply because * hates it.

But I can't bring myself to do the obligatory "awwwwww, cute".

[Breeze54]

5. That's old news!!

poor little thing....

[Jara sang]

14. The mouse in the top pic.

Has the expression like "Holy shit, what the hell have they done to me?!?!?"

[Clara T]

6. Is Woody Allen in the house?

Sleeper

[Sydnie]

8. The NOSE!!!

What a great movie that was!

[Sydnie]

7. Finally!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=293254&mesg_id=293305

I thought no one knew about that but me after my post today.

[mikelewis]

9. Man, If I lost my ear, I wouldn't give a shit where they got the new one..

And I can guarantee you, neither would Bush.

[gr8dane_daddy]

15. Isn't Bush being a little hypocritical?

I mean he did come from a bitch, right?

[mikelewis]

18. Not nice.....

I don't care how fucked up, twisted, evil-hearted a dog is, it's an insult to that animal to compare it to the First Lady.

[Fridays Child]

10. So, um...what is is she? Half poodle/half human?

;)

[mikelewis]

19. What ever it is, I bet it could hear a cat coming a mile away...

[Feenicks]

11. Is that Boy George's mum????

Eerie (sorry, couldn't resist!) :D

[ToolTex]

12. That doesn't look like an ear to me. The freeps are growing

a woman from parts. It's like a reverse Rocky Horror. Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of rethugs?

[NoAmericanTaliban]

13. He kinda resembles Tom Delay..

Wasn't there a movie Zoolander - the ultimate Animal/Human-Hybrid

Also, why would someone with donkey ears complain about animal-hybrids during the state of the onion speech.

[upi402]

22. LOL

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[Oilwellian]

16. Maybe one day...

they can learn how to grow new hearts. Sorry Uncka Dick...Georgie doesn't want that to happen.

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. Damn! Even the mice have ears these days...

What next? Dogs eating dead American civilians?

[deflated]

20. CAN

You hear me Now?

[skids]

21. Not sure I'd call that a hybrid.

A hybrid is more like something done with gene splicing. This was just insertings cells and a support lattice into the mouse as a sort of parasite.

What you've got there is a chimera:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(animal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid

[deadparrot]

23. I thought he was talking about himself.

:shrug:

[niyad]

25. there was a POINT to this bizarreness? assuming, of course, that it is

real?

[upi402]

26. The woman in the pic looks like she wants a snack

The earbone might be too grissly though.