Swiss researchers have engineered elastic cartilage from patients’ own ear cells with mechanical properties close to natural tissue, although stabilisation of elastin remains a critical hurdle ...

“We see in our specialty patients who have ear deformities, called microtia, which can be reconstructed, but it's a technically challenging operation that I think very few people in the world do well, ...

Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no ...