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The maverick scientist who's making ears out of APPLES: Bizarre project could grow cheap body parts from leftover produce

Growing organs from stem cells would help solve organ shortage

But traditional methods for growing organs are complex and expensive

A Canadian inventor and scientist is attempting to solve this problem

His lab has come up with a way to implant human cells into apples

IMAGE: Andrew Pelling, a Canadian ‘biohacker’, breaks convention in more ways than one. The scientist bases his research on being inventive, and has recently published a paper explaining how apples can be used to grow human body parts

Mr Pelling’s wife carved apples into the shape of ears, then took them to the lab where the scientists treated them to turn the apple cells into human cells.

‘We founded a mission-driven company, and we're developing kits to make it easier for anyone with a sink and a soldering iron to make these things at home.

‘We took a totally innocent Macintosh apple, removed all the apple cells and DNA and then implanted human cells,’ Mr Pelling said.

IMAGE: Mr Pelling’s wife carved apples into the shape of ears, then took them to the lab where the scientists treated them to turn the apple cells into human cells. Apples carved into the shape of human ears, ready to be implanted with human cells, pictured

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