The University of Sheffield announces approval of the first human trial testing regenerative cell therapy to treat ...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

Scientists grow cochlea hair cells PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have grown tiny hair cells that are necessary for hearing, suggesting a new therapy to regain hearing ...

The outer hair cells are located near the center of the basilar membrane where vibrations will be greatest while the basilar membrane is anchored under the inner hair cells (see Figure 5). These ...

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Top: Rows of healthy sensory hair cells in the mouse inner ear with green stereocilia arcs. Middle: In Rest mutant mice, hair cells are disorganized, and stereocilia barely visible. Bottom: In ...

Since these cells cannot be repaired and regenerated, the ability to amplify sound decreases when damaged. In the current study, researchers examined outer hair cells isolated from mature male guinea ...

Hair cells in the cochlea pick up the sound waves and start moving up and down, causing microscopic projections on top of the cells to bump against an overlying structure and bend.

They hope their findings, “Reprogramming by drug-like molecules leads to regeneration of cochlear hair cell-like cells in adult mice,” published in PNAS, could one day pave the way for ...

We hear by means of a small spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear called the cochlea, about the size of the tip of our little finger. It is lined with exquisitely sensitive hair cells that can each ...