Making organ donation a thing of the past - the British lab growing human spare parts

Don’t panic, this isn’t a severed human ear – but one that’s been grown in a laboratory at Britain’s remarkable new human body parts store

Professor Alexander Seifalian with an ear 'grown' in a laboratory. 'We are the first in the world working on this,' he said

'This is a nose we’re growing for a patient next month,’ Professor Alexander Seifalian says matter-of-factly, plucking a Petri dish from the bench beside him.

Inside is an utterly lifelike appendage, swimming in red goo. Alongside it is another dish containing an ear.

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