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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Zebrafish can regrow hearing cells we can't, and scientists have just found two genes that may explain how. This discovery ...

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

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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