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A medical team from East China's Jiangsu Province performed auricular reconstruction surgery on a nine-year-old girl born without a right ear, using her own costal cartilage to craft a new ear with ...

When it comes to repairing human bodies, there’s one major difficulty: spare parts are hard to come by. It’s simply not possible to buy a knee joint or a new lung off the shelf. At best, doctors and ...

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