We’ve covered some pretty smart hearing aids before at Digital Trends, but the work being done by researchers at Baltimore’s University of Maryland School of Medicine is something else entirely.

Experts at the Morriston Hospital in Swansea have successfully used a combination of virtual and solid modelling to provide surgeons with an accurate drilling template for implanting a prosthetic ear.

Sherrie Wilson had something growing on her wrist — a new left ear. Surgeons from John Hopkins University grew the ear on the cancer survivor’s forearm with cartilage from her rib cage in what’s been ...

During his 10-year struggle with basal cell carcinoma, Henry Fiorentini emerged minus his right ear, and minus the hearing that goes with it. The good news: Today, the 56-year-old IT programmer and ...

A groundbreaking total ear reconstruction, which saw a new ear grown on a soldier's arm to replace one lost in an accident, has been successfully carried out by the US military. Described as the first ...

For the first time, scientists have produced 3D-printed structures made of living cells that are big enough and strong enough to replace human tissues. A bioprinter, described today in Nature ...

Johns Hopkins University Hospital surgeons have successfully transplanted a new ear on a woman who lost one due to an unusually aggressive form of skin cancer. The procedure was no ordinary transplant ...