A human ear attached to a woman’s foot sounds like a stunt from a horror film, yet it is the centerpiece of a real, carefully planned medical rescue. In a world first, surgeons in China temporarily ...

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 ...

Microsurgery just achieved what seemed impossible: Chinese surgeon Qiu Shenqiang successfully grafted a human ear onto a patient's foot as a life-saving reconstructive measure. The procedure, ...

The first human transplant of a 3D-printed outer ear was successful, which could lead to progress printing other human tissues and organs. Researchers have transplanted a 3D-printed human ear—made by ...