Your ears and nose are made from tissue that looks like bubble wrap

It turns out that the cartilage inside your ears and nose is different from that found elsewhere in the body, with a fatty structure that makes it look like bubble wrap, and this long-overlooked tissue could prove useful in certain surgeries

A long-overlooked skeletal tissue found in the nose and ears turns out to resemble bubble wrap – and harnessing it could make facial surgery, like nose reshaping, easier.at the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues first spotted the unusual tissue a few years ago while they were studying fat cells collected from mouse ears. “It was just a scientific accident,” he says.

But when the researchers examined mouse nose and ear samples under a microscope, they found a structure consisting of cells packed full of fats, also known as lipids, connected only by a thin mesh of protein – prompting the team to name it lipocartilage. “It looks like bubble wrap,” says Plikus.

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