3D printed tissues and organs have shown real potential in addressing shortages of available donor tissue for people in need of transplants, but having them take root and survive after implantation ...

A challenge for tissue engineering is producing three-dimensional (3D), vascularized cellular constructs of clinically relevant size, shape and structural integrity. We present an integrated ...

A team of researchers has produced elastic ear cartilage from human cells in a laboratory setting, which achieved mechanical ...

I remember the days when “cyborg” was a science fiction term and was unlikely to turn up in a serious science paper. Happily, the old folk who attempt to stand between the seas of scientific and ...

The method involves digitally redesigning the damaged inner ear structure. Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) has developed a technique to treat a rare inner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first for medicine, a surgeon has successfully implanted an outer ear developed and 3D-printed in a laboratory. A 20-year-old ...

No audio available for this content. Structure from motion (SfM) is a photogrammetric range imaging technique for estimating three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional image sequences that may ...

When it comes to repairing human bodies, there’s one major difficulty: spare parts are hard to come by. It’s simply not possible to buy a knee joint or a new lung off the shelf. At best, doctors and ...

Scientists have been trying to create a functional human ear for decades ...