The inner ear is a highly specialised sensory organ responsible for converting mechanical sound waves into neural signals through mechanosensitive hair cells. Despite their essential role in hearing, ...

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods allow, offering a new tool for hearing loss research. The study, published ...

Unlike birds and amphibians, mammals can't recover lost hearing. In people, the cells of the inner ear responsible for detecting sound and transmitting those signals to the brain form during early ...

A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear, because the sensory hearing cells of the inner ear don't regenerate after damage. In two new studies, partially funded by the National Institutes ...

Researchers from the Salk Institute and the University of Sheffield completed a study that they say shows promise for the development of gene therapies to repair hearing loss. In developed countries, ...

In a study which suggests that genetic mutation was not necessarily the primary evolutionary force producing morphological change in mammals, researchers report in the September issue of Developmental ...

In a move to become a “pure play” RNA company, Altamira Therapeutics is selling off 90% of its Zilentin subsidiary and its inner ear R&D work for the chance to make up to $55 million in biobucks. The ...