Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

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Youth with congenital deafness treated with gene therapy showed better progress on certain hearing measures than counterparts ...

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

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 ...

Understanding hearing loss An important factor in hearing is the health of cochlear hair cells—sensory cells in the inner ear that detect sound vibrations and send electric signals to the brain. These ...

Multichannel electrodes were inserted into the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) to monitor drug effect along the tonotopic axis. The relation between the drug’s effect time and location was ...

Regenerated hair cells in the neonatal cochlea are innervated and the majority co-express markers of both inner and outer hair cells Mitchell L. Heuermann 1 Sophia Matos 1,2 Deborah Hamilton 2 Brandon ...

Delivery of normal EPS8 can rescue stereocilia elongation and the function of auditory hair cells in the ears of mice affected by the loss of EPS8.