Sentences with phrase «human vocal cords»

For the first time, scientists have created vocal cord tissue starting with cells from human vocal cords.

For that matter, human vocal cords closely resemble those of other species.

Not exact matches

In the human voice box, or larynx, air from the lungs is pushed past the vocal cords, which then start moving back and forth sideways like a flag fluttering in the wind.

But now new research published in Nature Communications reveals that humans and birds use the exact same physical mechanism to make their vocal cords move and thus produce sound.

To see if the engineered vocal cord tissue could generate sound, the investigators transplanted the tissue into larynges that had been taken from dogs, which are anatomically similar to human larynges.

For the study, the researchers first collected vocal cord tissue from four people who had their larynges removed for unrelated reasons, and from one human cadaver.

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.