Sherrie Wilson had something growing on her wrist — a new left ear. Surgeons from John Hopkins University grew the ear on the cancer survivor’s forearm with cartilage from her rib cage in what’s been ...

Surgeons used rib cartilage to reconstruct a woman’s ear and part of her skull after cancer destroyed them. Sherrie Walter, 42, from Bel Air, Md., had basal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin ...

Thanks to two novel tools, the traditionally difficult surgery to create a replacement ear from a patient's rib cartilage may soon be done faster, more simply and accurately. According to the National ...

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have created elastic and stable ear cartilage from human cells grown in a laboratory.

NEW HYDE PARK, Long Island (WABC) -- A 5-year-old boy who was born without a left ear now feels "normal" following a revolutionary reconstruction technique using cadaver tissue on a 3-D ear. Luca ...

A teenage girl in New York City can now hear clearly for the first time in her life after undergoing a series of ear reconstruction surgeries. Fifteen-year-old Furugh was born with microtia, a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 20-year-old woman born with microtia, a rare birth defect that causes the outer part of the ear to either not form or under-develop, received a 3D-printed ear transplant made ...

According to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, one in every 8,000 to 10,000 births in the United States result in one of two congenital malformations of the ear: microtia (the child is ...