The mammalian cochlea is an extraordinary biomechanical system whose capacity for sensitivity and frequency discrimination hinges on intricate interactions between its passive structures and active ...

Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) are among the fastest known biological motors and are essential for high-frequency hearing in mammals. It is commonly hypothesized that OHCs amplify vibrations in the ...

Ultrasonic hearing and vocalization are the physiological mechanisms controlling echolocation used in hunting and navigation by microbats and bottleneck dolphins and for social communication by mice ...

Research team awarded five-year, $3.2 million grant from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders AHL is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults, ...

The discovery of a genetic switch could be instrumental in producing mechanosensory hair cells of the inner ear that die due to aging, loud noises, chemotherapy, or antibiotics, resulting in deafness.

A cochlear signal, the exact role of which has been unclear since its discovery around 70 years ago, probably gives the brain information on whether the ear is functioning normally or not. These new ...

Dear Doctor K: I'm in my 80s and have been progressively losing my hearing. When I asked my doctor what caused my hearing loss, he said it was because my "cochlea died." What did he mean? Dear Reader: ...

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 Rest ...

Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer drugs has been irreversible, because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and inner ear sensory cells ...

Effective hearing loss treatments have eluded medicine because once sensory hair cells (HCs) in the inner ear are damaged or destroyed, they cannot be regenerated. However, researchers at Mass Eye and ...

MED-EL’s cochlear implants are now FDA-approved in children seven months and older with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss ...