Repairing body tissue is a hard enough challenge as it is, but repairing damaged vocal cords is another type of challenge. Regenerative medicine has made many strides in the past few years. Being able ...

"I lost my voice, and it's back now... It's like a boob job in my throat," Griffin joked On Friday, July 26, the comedian, 63, gave her Instagram followers an update about her vocal cords. She ...

A small clinical trial is to start next year on a polymer gel that can repair damaged vocal cords. Steven Zeitels, a professor of laryngeal surgery at Harvard Medical School collaborated with MIT’s ...

Vibration resistant: A 3D rendered image of the vocal cord bioreactor used to mechanically test the porous double-network hydrogel. (Credit: Zixin He) What do the heart and the vocal cords have in ...

University of Delaware materials scientist Xinqiao Jia has received a combined $4.85 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research aimed at improving human health ...

Dick Vitale is heading back under the knife fairly soon. Vitale announced that he’s received some “bad news” about his health. The legendary college basketball announcer stated this week he will ...

According to The Week, the gel is injected directly into the vocal cord region (Isn't it vocal chord, you're saying? Well, we checked and everyone seems to use cord now), where it bonds with existing ...

(Nanowerk News) Damaged or diseased vocal cords can forever change and even silence the voices we love, from a family member's to a famous personality's. Julie Andrews, who starred in such classics as ...

Inspired by the world’s largest land animal, researchers have created and tested what they say is the world’s smallest 3D bioprinter. The device — which sports a 2.7-millimetre-wide print head at the ...

Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in ...

In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in treating those with damaged vocal chords, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have developed a new ...