Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have ...

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, ...

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 ...

Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial. Scientists have ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In A Nutshell Scientists found evidence that ancient coelacanths may have used their bony lungs to detect sound vibrations ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...