Learn how to prevent age-related hearing loss with practical steps like wearing ear protection, getting regular screenings, ...

Proteins Hey1, Hey2 ensure that inner ear 'hair cells' are made at the right time, in the right place. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 09 ...

With this pathway, they were able to reprogram the inner ear's cells to proliferate and regenerate hair-cell-like cells in adult mice. This first-of-its-kind, proof of concept study may provide an ...

A microscopic view of auditory hair cells in a healthy inner ear. (Courtesy of Yehoash Raphael) Nearly 10 percent of the population in America suffers from hearing loss, said Yehoash Raphael, a ...

Loud music assaults the cochlea, the snail-shaped organ of the inner ear whose tiny hair cells detect sound vibrations. The cochlea translates these into electrical impulses that nerves carry to ...

The presence of two types of hair cells, the inner and outer hair cells, in the organ of Corti was appreciated nearly a 100 years ago but the function of the two has only become clear in the last 20 ...

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists say they've come up with a new drug cocktail of molecules that they say can successfully regenerate the hair cells in the inner ear that enable hearing ...

The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside ... The sensory cells are called hair cells because of their appearance under the microscope. Each hair cell has a tuft of ...

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 ...

Doetzlhofer and postdoctoral fellow Ana Benito Gonzalez bred mice whose inner ear cells were missing Hey1 and Hey2, two genes known to be active in the parent cells but turned off in hair cells.