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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (1339)	1/4/2000 11:30:00 AM
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Progress in Growing Organs Frog Eyes, Ears from Embryo; Human Parts Next? Horn Acoppia..? By Eric Prideaux The Associated Press T O R O N T O, Jan. 4 ? Japanese researchers have grown frog eyes and ears in a lab using the animal?s own embryo cells, technology a scientist said could eventually help doctors replace lost or damaged human sensory organs using cells from the patients? bodies. Makoto Asashima, a biologist at prestigious Tokyo University, said Monday that the process is an alternative to donor transplants. The team cultivated thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to produce the organs, he said.