University of Delaware Materials scientist Xinqiao Jia (center) is spearheading solutions to repair damaged vocal folds and salivary glands through tissue engineering. The work includes contributions ...

Our vocal cords, two multilayered folds of tissue located above the trachea, produce voice when air passes between them and sets them into vibration. Various environmental, mechanical and pathological ...

While the team has created human sized vocal folds, actual clinical trials on people are a ways away. When the procedure is ready for humans, Welham envisions a future where the tissue is prepared ...

Oregon Health & Science University said a trained AI program can detect cancer of a larynx by picking up the distinct ...

Each vocal fold is a laminated structure consisting of a pliable vibratory layer of connective tissue, known as the lamina propria, sandwiched between a membrane (epithelium) and a muscle.

Vocal cords are small and complex — and, when badly damaged, they're difficult to treat. Now, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have engineered lab-grown vocal cord tissue for ...

Vocal fold (or vocal cord) paralysis occurs when your vocal folds, the two bands of tissue in your larynx (voice box), stop moving. Usually, this occurs because one or both of the nerves that go to ...

Vocal folds, commonly known as vocal cords, consist of two elastic bands of muscle tissue that vibrate in response to air flow from the lungs to produce sound. C. Schaffer / Science/AAAS ...

GIVING VOICE On the larynx from a dog cadaver, the engineered vocal fold (left) sits next to a dog’s vocal fold (right). Both folds vibrated at a similar rate when air was blown over the tissue.

The vocal folds themselves consist of multiple tissue layers—a muscular layer, a transition layer of elastin fibers, and an outer cover of epithelial cells—each responding differently to ...

The vocal folds are constantly exposed to various airway pollutants from the environment and irritants from the body such as acid reflux,” Sivasankar says. “These may all interact with each other.

This photo taken Oct. 14, 2011 shows a normal larynx and vocal folds, center, during surgery in Madison, Wis. J. Scott McMurray, MD/University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health via AP ...