Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ...

For most people, their ears are able to process these wide-ranging sounds and make sense of them. However, scientists don't have a full sense of why this happens because they are still working to ...

Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular 'springs' that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have known that these gating springs must exist, ...

In the new study, researchers used powerful technology to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which ...

Their findings shed new light on our understanding of the sense of hearing and the function of ion channels ... including those in the human ear. Regardless of whether mechanical, electrical or ...

Objective To determine if human colonic neuromuscular functions decline with increasing age. Design Looking for non-specific changes in neuromuscular function, a standard burst of electrical field ...

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has just been completed and released on a new website. For the ...

Comprehensive resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes Date: February 26, 2025 Source: Keck School of Medicine of USC Summary: A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known ...

The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound ... But in mice with genetic hearing loss, cochlear function increased, indicating that the brain was enhancing ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, used an innovative imaging tool to examine the mouse inner ear and made a ...