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Bioartists' Flesh Sculptures Draw Fans and Critics

by Rob Schmitz

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Day to Day, December 10, 2007 · Stem cell experiments are no longer limited to researchers. A group of artists is making the evolutionary leap to the next medium: life. Bioartists create by engineering living tissue and even living beings, sometimes with controversial outcomes.

At the forefront of this movement is SymbioticA, a bioart laboratory funded by the University of Western Australia. Run by Ionat Zurr and her husband Oron Catts, the couple is continually pushing the boundaries of art; they've grown a replica of an ear with living human skin cells, miniature wings with the flesh of a pig and mouse cells in the shape of a tiny leather jacket.

Their innovative work has generated substantial interest...READ ENTIRE ARTICLE and view the picture of "Bioartists Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts have grown a replica of an ear with living human skin cells."
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