Sentences with phrase «grown vocal cord»
Researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab, and it works — the tissue was able to produce sound when it was transplanted into intact voice boxes from animals, according to a new study.
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They took cells from those tissue samples and successfully grew them on a three - dimensional scaffold to produce new vocal cords.
Over time this can produce vocal nodes, calluslike knobs that grow on the vocal cords and prevent them from closing completely during their oscillation.
In about two weeks, the cells grew together and formed a tissue that «felt like vocal cord tissue,» Welham said in a statement.
December 7, 2015 — Researchers grew human cells into functional vocal cord tissue in the laboratory — an important preliminary step toward restoring voice function to people with injured vocal cords.