In a first for medicine, a surgeon has successfully implanted an outer ear developed and 3D-printed in a laboratory. A 20-year-old woman who was born with the congenital disorder microtia and had one ...

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 ...

In a medical milestone, a patient born with a small, misshapen right ear has been surgically fitted with a 3D-printed implant — a doubly groundbreaking procedure because the artificial ear’s tissue is ...