Gene therapy has been effective for young children with genetic hearing loss, but this is the first study to show promising ...

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

MONTPELLIER, France I July 01, 2025 I Sensorion (FR0012596468 – ALSEN) a pioneering clinical-stage biotechnology company specializing in the development of ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel ...

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

We encounter many kinds of noise everywhere we go. Depending on sound levels and duration of exposure, some noise can affect hearing long-term. In fact, noise exposure is one of the most common ...

To probe the direct dependence of MET current adaptation on intracellular Ca 2+, recordings from mouse cochlear hair cells were performed by using either low, endolymphatic extracellular Ca 2+ (0.04 ...

Severance Hospital recently achieved 3,000 cases of auditory implant surgery. The process by which a person hears sounds goes ...

I first began to go deaf several years ago when I developed Meniere’s disease, which damaged my inner ear and affected my ...

Mammalian cochlear hair cells come in two anatomically and functionally distinct types: the outer and inner hair cells. Damage to these hair cells results in decreased hearing sensitivity, i.e ...

Rapid recovery of mechanoelectrical transduction in outer hair cells from the rat’s cochlea. (A) A fluid-jet stimulator was driven at 60 Hz with two sinusoidal stimulus trains (top trace), one before ...