Research published this week in PLoS ONE gives us new insight into the inner workings of the roars of lions and tigers—the secret is in the cats’ vocal folds. A group of biologists and speech ...

Common viral infections, such as a cold or flu, can sometimes lead to a condition known as laryngitis – inflammation of the voice box, which causes swollen vocal folds (or vocal cords).

Register shifts in professional singers may correspond to altered vocal fold vibration patterns which are audible to experts, according to a study published May 3, 2017 in the open-access journal ...

Not only did the mice accept the lab-grown vocal folds, but the tissue trumpeted a healthy vibrato in the dogs’ larynges, too. “It was really indistinguishable from normal vocal fold vibration ...

The folds on the cephalic side form the external or false vocal cords, while the internal folds become the true vocal cords. At this point, which is about the tenth week of fetal development ...

The cells were coaxed into forming tissue that mimics vocal fold mucosa – the flaps in the larynx that vibrate to create the sounds of the human voice. The donated vocal fold cells came from one ...

“This tissue engineering approach has the potential to restore voice function in patients with otherwise untreatable VF [vocal fold] mucosal disease,” the authors of a paper published recently ...