In a first for medicine, a surgeon has successfully implanted an outer ear developed and 3D-printed in a laboratory. A 20-year-old woman who was born with the congenital disorder microtia and had one ...

Using state-of-the-art tissue engineering techniques and a 3D printer, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering have assembled a replica of an adult human ear that looks and feels ...

The ear reconstruction is part of a clinical trial for patients with microtia, a rare congenital deformity where one or both outer ears are absent or underdeveloped In a "groundbreaking" surgery, ...

The technology to utilize 3D printing technology to create replacement body parts for transplanting has been around for at least half a decade, complete with an aim to provide people with ...

We’ve come a long way from the Vacanti mouse. Back in the mid-90s, Charles Vacanti and other researchers experimented with cartilage regeneration and, with the help of a biodegradable mold and bovine ...

Conducted by 3DBio and the Microtia-Congenital Ear Deformity Institute, the trial will follow 11 microtia patients for five years after the procedure. The ability to 3D print ears using cartilage ...