# Landmark Transplant Turns 3D Bioprinting on Its Ear

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-a-design-battle-between-chip-engineers-led-to-polaroids-revolutionary-sx-70-camera/
- Published: 2022-06-13T09:15:23-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image caption: A 3D-printed outer ear made from living human cartilage cells could be transplanted onto a patient’s head. Image credit: 3DBio Therapeutics. Article by Elie Dolgin. IEEE Spectrum – June 7, 2022.  A reconstructed ear made of living cells could herald a new era of 3D-printed organs More than a quarter-century after scientists first grew a humanlike ear on the back of a mouse, surgeons in San Antonio have successfully used a 3D printer to reconstruct an outer ear made of living cells for a young woman with a congenital ear deformity—no creepy-looking mice required. Researchers […] Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org