News tagged with nasal septum

Synthetic, dissolving plates ease repairs of nasal septum defects

Attaching cartilage to plates made of the resorbable material polydioxanone appears to facilitate corrective surgery on the nasal septum, the thin cartilage separating the two airways, according to a report in the January/February ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful

More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sniffing Out the Physical Condition of Conspecifics

To date, it has been unknown exactly how mammals are capable of sniffing out whether a conspecific is ill. The biologists Prof. Marc Spehr and Daniela Flügge are following a good lead. They have discovered ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0