“If we can engineer an ear, that would be a better approach.” Spector’s team used 3D printing to create an anatomically accurate template of a human ear from polylactic acid bioink, a biocompatible ...

“I had imagined that doctors could access any place in the human body,” he admitted. However, the inner ear remained largely ...

To create an ear, the printer lays down a pliable ... Is there any area of anatomy that can’t be made in this way? Printing at least parts of the human heart should be possible, Atala says.

An American medical team has reconstructed a human ear using the patient’s own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant. It is a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare ...