KFSHRC treats inner ear disorders using ultra-micro 3D printing - reconstructing the delicate structure responsible for the body’s balance.

The auditory ossicles of the middle ear – the malleus, incus and stapes – are the tiniest bones in the human body. All three can fit on a dime, with room to spare. Their job is to transmit sounds from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Previously other companies have used 3D printing technology to produce custom prosthetic limbs from lightweight plastics and materials. Still, the ear implant is the first known example of a 3D ...

3DBio Therapeutics, a biotech company in Queens, said it had for the first time used 3-D printing to make a body part with a patient’s own cells. By Roni Caryn Rabin A 20-year-old woman who was born ...