October 3, 2011 (Denver, Colorado) — A significant number of plastic surgeons have faith in the ability of tissue engineers to invent products in the next 15 years that will arm them with the tools to ...

Microtia is a congenital disorder that can occur as a malformation of the external ear in children. In a new study published in Science Advances, Dominika Zielinska and a research team in tissue ...

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is the first in the world to eliminate months of pain after surgical repair for microtia—a rare condition where a child is born with an ...

3DBio Therapeutics (3DBio), a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, and the Microtia-Congenital Ear Deformity Institute announced that they have conducted a human ear reconstruction using the ...

Affecting about 1 to 5 of every 10,000 babies born globally, microtia is a rare disorder encompassing a spectrum of congenital ear malformations or even absence of the auricle, the visible part of the ...

KUTV — Microtia is a congenital condition characterized by the underdevelopment or absence of the external ear (auricle). This condition can affect one or both ears and varies in severity. For ...

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 ...

The pathogenesis of microtia, a rare congenital malformation of the external ear, remains elusive. Phenotypes range from minor deformities, such as preauricular tags, to anotia, the complete absence ...