In the beginning, there was the earmouse: naked, pink, and toting on its back a grotesque ear-like appendage the size of a child’s ear. When an image of this mouse-grown “ear”— actually a piece of ...

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 ...

In a first for medicine, a surgeon has successfully implanted an outer ear developed and 3D-printed in a laboratory. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

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 ...