You may have seen it in a textbook or on TV: a mouse with a human ear on its back. You might have thought that the mouse was genetically engineered, or deformed, or the result of mad scientists ...

"So come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab." --Dr. Frank N Furter, "Rocky Horror Picture Show" It is an inconspicuous plant with a great big scientific name. This is one that has found its way ...

It is an inconspicuous plant with a great big scientific name. This is one that has found its way out of Europe and Asia, far into the New World and Australia, as a common weed, and now thrives on ...

What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with "golden ears" -- mice that have outstanding hearing as they age. The ...

In the beginning, there was the earmouse: naked, pink, and toting on its back a grotesque ear-like appendage the size of a child’s ear. When an image of this mouse-grown “ear”— actually a piece of ...

Five children from China born with malformed ears have had them regrown using cells from their own bodies. Using a groundbreaking process to grow body parts from cells in a laboratory, researchers in ...