NEW YORK (AP) -- When 68-year-old Robert Rosene received a bionic eye, he didn't get the Six Million Dollar Man's telescoping vision. Rosene, of St. Charles, Ill., saw nothing but pitch-black before ...

PRINCETON, N.J. - With a 3-D printer, a petri dish and some cells from a cow, Princeton University researchers are growing synthetic ears that can receive - and transmit - sound. The scientists send ...

-- Neptune, the world’s first and only swimmable sound processor for cochlear implant recipients, is now approved in China -- VALENCIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Bionics (AB), the global ...

The 3D printing boom has been changing the medical field in recent years. Engineers have discovered ways to print viable organ tissue and mini organs that have the potential to impact drug and ...

Soundhawk is a little ear piece with a big job. About the weight of an earring, and half the size of a Bluetooth device, Soundhawk fits right in your ear. Once it's situated in there, it takes on the ...

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 ...