What if we told you your nose could help heal ... to mature for two weeks before surgery. While both groups reported improvements, patients with more mature cartilage grafts continued to show ...

“Nasal septum cartilage cells have particular characteristics ... involving cartilage grafts grown for only two days prior to surgery versus grafts allowed to mature for two weeks.

To accomplish this, the researchers first extract a small sample of cartilage from the patient’s nose and those cells are subsequently multiplied in a lab and then placed on a soft fiber scaffold ...

In response, researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel are developing cartilage implants using cells from the patient's nasal septum. A recent study shows that giving ...

The patients in the nasal tissue study were all elderly and had recently undergone cancer surgery. Ordinarily, doctors reconstruct noses with big pieces of cartilage taken from the ear ...