Scientists Discover Protein Responsible for Hearing and Balance
Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance. The…
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Children with Cochlear Implants Learn Words Faster Than Children With Normal Hearing
According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, up to two thousand hearing impaired children are born in Germany each year. For some of them…
New Treatment Regenerates Hair Cells in the Inner Ear, Combats Hearing Loss
A team of researchers has discovered a drug combination that can regenerate hair cells in the inner ear, offering a potential new way to treat…
New Drug Cocktail Unlocks Potential to Regrow Inner-Ear ‘Hair’ Cells
A team of researchers has developed a new approach to replace damaged sound-sensing hair cells, which eventually may lead to therapies for people who live…
Newly Developed Drug Treatment Could Potentially Treat Hearing Loss
A team of scientists has discovered a combination of drugs that expands the population of progenitor cells in the ear and induces them to become…
Genetically Reducing AMPK Activity May Prevent Hereditary Hearing Loss
New research from Yale University reveals that genetically reducing AMPK activity delays hereditary hearing loss in mice. Hereditary hearing loss can worsen over time and…
Hearing Restored in Noise-Deafened Mice
Using advanced tools to boost the production of a key protein in the ears of mice, a team of scientists has restored the hearing of…
Babies Begin Learning Language in Womb
Newborn babies only a few hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign one. A new study indicates…
Researchers Restore Hearing to Noise-Damaged Ears
By using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School…
Aversion to Clashing Harmonies is Due to Mathematical Relationships of Overtones
There are many people who dislike clashing dissonances of some modernist composers. It’s been long thought that dissonant musical chords contain acoustic frequencies that interfere…
Human Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Partial Hearing in Gerbils
There are more than 275 million people that have moderate to profound hearing loss, and many are caused by a breach in the connection between…