#the vacanti mouse

[1997thebracket]

Round 1B

Erykah Badu’s Baduizm: On and on and on and on, my cypher keeps moving like a rolling stone. Baduizm is the groundbreaking debut album by Erykah Badu, released in early 1997 by Kedar and Universal Records. The album a cornerstone of the neo-soul movement, blending elements of R&B, jazz, and hip-hop in an experimentally-retro musical experience, which drew favorable comparisons from the critics of the time to soul music of the 70s. Badu's sound is recognizable for her sultry vocals and introspective or socially conscious lyrics, while the album’s production stands out with warm, rich live instrumentation. Featuring the singles On & On and Next Lifetime, the album not only stood tall as a leading example in the evolution of the soul genre but also established her as a new force in contemporary music, leaving an indelible mark on the world of R&B and soul moving forward. Baduizm debuted at #2 on the US Billboard charts and #1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts, and is certified triple Platinum in the US; it would also win the Grammy for Best R&B Album under the banner of neo-soul.

EMOUSE: The Vacanti Mouse Emails: In August 1997, scientists Charles and Joseph Vacanti published a paper in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery regarding their research into tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In the journal, they printed a picture of a mouse with what appeared to be a human ear growing out of its back; within months of this publication, every one of your aunts would forward you an email chain containing the “Ear Mouse” photo, proclaiming it to be a horrifying example of genetic modification and decrying the ethics of scientists playing God. (Note: I’ve opted to show you a cuter photo for the bracket.) In actuality, to create the ear-like structure on the mouse's back, researchers implanted a biodegradable scaffold made of a synthetic material seeded with cartilage cells into the mouse. Over time, the cartilage cells grew and formed the ear-shaped structure; no genetic modification was involved. This did not stop the spread of the emails, which often lacked text entirely or misrepresented what was shown, and incensed both animal rights activists and far-right religious groups to the extent that full-page ads were taken out in major news publications like the New York Times expressing outrage. While the photo remains divisive today, the Vacanti Mouse is an iconic image in discussions about the potential of regenerative medicine and the ethical considerations surrounding such research.

[lemonfairyd]

Lemon's beasttober day 24: Vacanti Mouse. This is not actually a mythic beast its a real world test to see if theoretically human organs could be synthesized. the experiment was a success but they never reached larger animal trials and got nowhere near clinical trials. good news, they didn't make this guy have the ear on his back forever. they removed it and let him live out his life as a house pet type mouse. i mean sure he was bald and couldn't get a job or a girlfriend, but that probably would have happened anyway..

[fagtron2000]

I love you vacanti mouse im so sorry about the world

[016s]

um can i get a number 0 and a number 13 and a 21 with a 44?

HI SY you may!!

0: Height

Answered in the last ask :) 6'6"

13: Biggest turn ons

In a more emotional and boring sense I definitely get very attracted to people off their voice alone. I guess everyone does but I feel like I'm definitely drawn to people more by voice than the average person. In the fun sexual sense I used to be very into cnc but that's something I've kind of drifted away from atm. Loooove woundfucking always have always will<3 has been occupying the mind more than usual as of late

21: What I love most about myself

Hard to answer in a not-mentally-ill way. I used to struggle a lot with really intense apathy and cynicism probably from undiagnosed npd or something but I think I have made a big turnaround with just.. having empathy and having more consideration towards myself & others. I don't think it's normally something I'd love so much about myself but it took a lot of internal work to get to that point and it's something I'm always proud of myself for, and I think my relationships w/ others have obviously benefitted from it too.

44: A random fact about anything

In the mid/late 90's there was a hairless mouse with a human ear grown on its back :) He was dubbed the Vacanti mouse. Obviously not very ethical but undeniably interesting to see & look at. Disappointingly, it was technically not a human ear but a bunch of tissue that sort of grew into one - it wasn't an operational ear in the sense he could hear out of it. Still neat to me though. Here he is:

I think about him a lot. Very neat little guy

[slimyworld]

[mice-rats-daily]

Today’s mouse is the Vacanti Mouse from real life!

[strangebiology]

Didn't know how to end this

[prophetpedia]

WHAT HAPPENED TO VACANTI MOUSE?

Several people suffer from disfigured faces either due to birth defects or sometimes injuries. Researchers in Japan decided to do something they took a healthy lab rat, called Vacanti Mouse and added ear-shaped molding beneath the skin. Then scientists injected stem cells into the molding the stem cells formed a human ear shaped cartilage and the molding slowly dissolved with time. The entire…

[figdays]

Genetically Engine-eared Vacanti Mouse // SuturedSpecimens

[regivapor]

Day 2: Scurry

I chose to draw the Vacanti mouse on elephant poop paper.

[nitewrighter]

Concept: Moira and Siebren DO (vaguely) know each other because in an effort of outreach by Overwatch, they got signed on for a "Bill Nye"esque series of shorts featuring just a bunch of big scientists.

The end product was never released to the public because none of these eggheads have any sort of acting ability, and also some of them are just unhinged.

Siebren: Cameras just make me uncomfortable. Even when I try to pretend they’re not there, they just make me trip over every word. I had the same problem when students would try to record my lectures. It’s honestly a huge inconvenience that I wish I didn’t have.

Moira: You grow one human ear on a mouse and suddenly it’s all ‘Don’t do that’ and ‘Is the mouse okay.’

Siebren: A reproduction of the Vacanti mouse experiment? That was merely a cartilage grafting, wasn’t it?

Moira: Nnno mine had a human ear. That was actually grown on a mouse. That functioned. The whole mouse vibrated with it, it was quite remarkable.

Siebren: ...was the mouse okay?

[1997thebracket]

A moment of silence for those we lost this week: farewell to Deep Blue Defeats World Chess Champion, GoldenEye 007, EMOUSE: The Vacanti Mouse Emails, Picasso's Tete de Femme Stolen and the Human Artificial Chromosome!

[agro-carnist]

I wonder if any ARAs have takes about the Vacanti mouse.

Oh im sure they do

[k00259071]

1/11/20

This is a selected proportion of my Research book, these are diffent artist I have researched that have gave me inspiration for my project, I have also included artists relevant to my project such as Wim Deloye, Barbara Kruger and although not been an artist Charles A.Vacanti Vacanti mouse as it is relevant to the animal testing issue I have looked into

[deanky]

The Vacanti Mouse. How quickly you forget...

[strangebiology]

What Happened to the Vacanti Mouse? 

A few years ago I wrote an article about the Ear Mouse, based on a famous image of a mouse with a scaffolding shaped like a human ear on their back. I interviewed one of the scientists who created it for about an hour and wrote some of the answers in an interview for Newsweek. I’m so interested in the Vacanti Mouse, it’s the inspiration for my icon (and shirts)

Lately there have been some viral posts and videos saying that the scientists removed the ear from the mouse and he lived out his life happily. That’s not true, but I think that myth may be my fault. 

Here’s a clip from my interview with Joseph Vacanti: 

What happened to the mouse in the photo? Many people had children asking those questions, and so what we would say is, we removed the ear, and the mouse lived out a happy, normal life. It was not harmed by our work, so I think that's the answer that I would like to give. In the world of medicine, there's a massive controversy about the use of animals. We're hoping to eliminate the need to use animals because we can now generate human structures and tissues using human cells and we can study them without the use of animals. That's our long-term goal.

It didn't actually live happily ever after, did it? Of course it did. The happy little mouse. That little mouse was very pleased that he could contribute in some way and make people's lives better.

So, some are reporting that “the mouse lived out a happy, normal life.” Perhaps I should have been clearer, or added an author’s note here. But it’s wrong. The scientists/lab workers killed all the mice. I know this because: 1) The whole statement was very wink-wink-nudge-nudge. Like he’s sure I know he/his employees killed them. “That is the answer I would like to give,” not “that is the truth.”

2) Mice used in experiments generally don’t just live out their lives afterwards, the standard is to kill them. So the Vacanti lab didn’t have to make a choice whether to kill them, it’s just standard. (If you have a problem with the standard, talk to ethics committees, not lab workers who are following the rules those committees set!)

3) The originally published paper, on pages 300-301, specifically states “Removal of the skin envelope from Group 1 specimens after sacrifice...” Sacrifice means being killed. 

I know that much fewer people are going to read this post as opposed to the one little quote that is making the internet rounds. But, I wanted to put this out there. The many ear mice/Vacanti mice were killed as a standard procedure.