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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

The study of vocal fold biomechanics and modelling has increasingly become central to understanding the complex interplay between tissue structure, mechanical properties, and phonatory function.

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 ...

Using the larynx of a dog cadaver (dogs are often used to test vocal fold tissue in the lab, the researchers explained in a press conference), they blew warm air through it to hear the sound it made.

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 ...

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 ...