Published in Nature by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the study connects the elastic cartilage in mammalian ears to the same rare tissue found in fish gills.

This essential building block of your body serves a useful purpose. Your body contains three different types of cartilage—hyaline, elastic, and fibrous. Hyaline cartilage, also referred to as ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.

Published in Nature by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the study connects the elastic cartilage in mammalian ears to the same rare tissue found in fish gills.

However, when reptiles came on the scene, the elastic cartilage of gills moved to the ear canal, which the scientists demonstrated in a series of experiments with green anole lizards.

Elastic cartilage is actually quite rare as tissue types go, and a pivotal clue during the team’s investigations was the discovery that gills are also made of elastic cartilage.

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A research team from University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) and University of Pennsylvania have pioneered a process for 3D printing hydrogel materials that are at once elastic, adhesive and ...

They revealed that stem cells communicate in the early stages to become elastic cartilage, which makes up human ears. To accomplish this, the team used extensive analysis of biological markers and ...