Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are getting closer to the moment will be using tissue engineering to create ear shells for patients who are born with malformed or have lost those parts of your body to incidents BBC .

In tissue engineering material is used by the patient and in the laboratory are "grown" organs to replace those missing in people for various reasons. Years ago, scientists were able to raise their ear about the size of a baby on the back of a mouse.

In yet another accomplishment that reported the journal Journal of the Royal Society Interface, talking about the following: scientists take living tissue from cows or sheep and then "grow" on a flexible matrix of titanium, reproduced on the basis of three-dimensional representation of a real human cochlea. Then again comes to the aid experimental mouse - rat immunosuppressed organ is implanted to reach the required size.

Dr. Thomas Cervantes, who heads the team, told the media that the first such human ear in real terms, it's a fact. After 12 weeks, the rat donor is willing to part with their ear and it should be provided to the patient for implantation.