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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel and the Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne have engineered ...

Doctors report that they have built a new windpipe for woman with ear cartilage that was first lengthened in her arm. Cartilage from each ear was transplanted into the tissue into her forearm, where ...

Choosing what type of piercing to get next in your ear is a tough decision. Once you have your lobes pierced, the options get infinitely more complicated. Whether it's your rook, tragus, helix, ...

Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells. The work reported Wednesday is a first ...

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Perichondritis is an infection that occurs in the tissue of the cartilage located in your outer ear, which is called the auricle or pinna. The infection itself is sometimes referred to as auricular ...

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 ...