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Engineering cartilage replacements
A lab discovery is a step toward implantable replacement cartilage, holding promise for knees, shoulders, ears and noses damaged by osteoarthritis, sports injuries and accidents.
Self-assembling sheets of mesenchymal stem cells permeated with tiny be…
Racial and ethnic disparities impact care for children with frequent ear infections
Alexandria, VA — Racial and ethnic disparities among children with frequent ear infections (FEI) significantly influence access to affordable healthcare, according to new research published in the November 2010 issue of Otolaryngology — Head…
Researchers develop first implanted device to treat balance disorder
A University of Washington Medical Center patient on Thursday, Oct. 21, will be the world’s first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling vertigo associated with Meniere’s disease.
The UW Medicine clinicians who developed the i…
Tuning into cell signals that tell where sensory organs will form inside the ear
Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear’s sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue that becomes th…