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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, in humans, those hair cells are encased in the hardest bone in the body and inaccessible when the ear is responding to sound, said Brian McDermott, an associate professor of otolaryngology at ...

There are two reasons why I find the cochlea fascinating. One is the medical relevance it has: The most common degenerative condition in humans is the loss of the hair cells of the cochlea.

The ATOH1 and GF1 genes are needed to make a cochlear hair cell from a non-hair cell. Then TBX2 must be turned on or off to produce the needed inner or outer cell, respectively.

Vibrations cause the fluid within the cochlea to ripple, forming waves that stimulate the movement of hair cells positioned on the top of the basilar membrane that separates the two fluid-filled ...