Replacement Ear with Right Look and Feel

The shape of a human ear is very individual, usually symmetrical, and, like a fingerprint, so characteristic that one can identify us by them. The outer portion of our ears has a complex structure that surgeons have a hard time replacing when disease or accident robs us of an ear. Researchers at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, say that they are able to produce an ear replacement with just the right look and feel. Their research was published in June in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.