In many cases, deafness can have a significant impact on a person’s well-being, from obvious primary challenges like, well, not being able to hear, to no-less-important secondary issues like resulting ...

A surgeon who specializes in treating rare ear deformities has successfully implanted a 3D-printed ear made of living tissue. The procedure, the first of its kind, was done on a 20-year-old woman from ...

Researchers have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells, a finding that could lead to new platforms to model disease and new therapies for the treatment of ...

Organ transplant recipients benefit significantly when they are monitored and receive prompt diagnosis and treatment for otitis media, a common inner ear infection. Organ transplant recipients benefit ...

The 3D bioprinting of an ear from living tissue is no trivial achievement. Reconstruction of ears has been done before with adults, but this is a quite different bio environment, effectively creating ...

A sensory epithelium makes up a small portion of the wall of the membranous chamber. It is made up of the sensory cells together with "supporting" cells that help to support the function of the ...

Five children from China born with malformed ears have had them regrown using cells from their own bodies. Using a groundbreaking process to grow body parts from cells in a laboratory, researchers in ...