Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods ...

Cochlear amplifier: A process driven by outer hair cell motility that enhances the sensitivity and selectivity of auditory responses.

Researchers in the UK have received approval to conduct the first ever human trials for a stem cell treatment to reverse ...

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods allow, offering a new tool for hearing loss research.

Loud noise travelled everywhere with Daryl Holmes. When he drove by, you could hear his car radio blaring. At dinner, he shouted. At night, his wife couldn’t sleep over the roar of the TV in the ...

Hearing depends on the proper function of the organ of Corti, a structure in the cochlea that houses around 15,000 inner and outer hair cells. These cells convert sound vibrations into electrical ...

Hair cells are highly specialized cells, attached to be basement membrane in the organ of corti within the cochlea. They have hair-like protrusions (stereocilia) embedded in the tectorial membrane ...

Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different ...

Scientists discover zebrafish hair cells can regenerate without cell division, challenging decades of textbook biology and ...

The findings of this important study substantially advance our understanding of the transcription factors that can induce hair cell-like cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The presented evidence ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...