Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use ...

A new prosthetic can improve the hearing of children suffering with microtia using 3D printing to create custom plastic prosthetics, reports Forbes. 1. Aided by developments in 3D bioprinting, human ...

Michael Royer blends in with the crowds filling the Metro trains each morning in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He carries an iPod and listens to music or recordings of sermons that he downloads from ...

He is not widely known outside medical circles, and this book is meant to remedy that. Gibson readily co-operated with Tina Allen, an experienced medical scientist and writer, but he sometimes seems a ...

A team of mad scientists hiding an ivory tower successfully 3-D-printed a bionic ear that can restore the sense of hearing for the deaf. The ear’s shaped like a human ear, for the most part, but the ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — A college professor who has struggled with balance issues for several decades has been selected as one of the first people in the world to receive a new experimental implant. Dr.

SAN FRANCISCO &#151 At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) described an analog “bionic ear processor” with ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Bionic ear maker Cochlear has been forced to begin a global recall of the world's thinnest hearing implants after some stopped working. The Sydney-based company, which dominates the ...

Engineers have created a silicon version of a key organ of hearing, using manufacturing techniques borrowed from the electronic chip industry. The device could serve as a prototype for mechanical ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Researchers at Princeton University have brought a new tool into the realm of cybernetics: a 3-D printer. The scientists have devised a way to produce an ear-shaped chunk of silicone ...

Two universities in our area are experimenting with the technology. It's created in a lab by a 3-d bioprinter. Instead of ink it uses a gel that contains a matrix of cartilage cells from cows. The ear ...