Hearing Research

When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from...

Hearing loss: A new class of genes has been identified as genetic cause for this clinical picture. Photo:...

April 21, 2009 - Utah and Texas researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop "hair cells" in the ear: when the tubes dance...

Study has potential to uncover new therapeutic approaches Cleveland - April 13, 2009 - Qing Yin Zheng, M.D., assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and...

The National Temporal Bone Registry  is an organization tasked with maintaining a database of temporal bone donations and donors. Why the temporal bone? What's so important...

Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some...

In the savage world of nature, the ability to hear - and hear well - is a survival trait. Many animals rely on their keen sense of hearing to detect danger lurking in...

In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive hearing loss. The new...

Multi-Sensory Hearing You know those big floppy ears elephants have? Well, they've got those ears for a reason - to better capture sounds out on the savannah. But here's the...

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts...

Findings: A study looking at the electronic medical records of 100 consecutive people who came to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for hearing tests that revealed...

A new study has successfully isolated human auditory stem cells from fetal cochleae Sheffield, England - March 23, 2009 - Deafness affects more than 250 million people...

Surgery at Loyola Makes it Possible to Attach Prosthesis with Magnets Maywood - To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear. A...

New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a...

If the inner ear were a city, then stereocilia could be considered the flashy, high-rise buildings making up the skyline. Protruding from the tops of sensory cells, called hair...

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a significant step forward in understanding the causes of some forms of deafness. The Leeds team has discovered that the myosin...

When you play a piano, the strings may supply the musical tones, but if it weren't for the wooden hammers striking the strings, you wouldn't hear a note. New research from the...

Anyone who has tried to carry on a conversation in a roomful of talkers knows how difficult it can be to concentrate on what one person is saying while tuning everyone else...

When we hear a sound, sensory cells in our inner ear trigger the release of a chemical-called a neurotransmitter-to neighboring nerve cells, which, in turn, relay the auditory...

Listening to a conversation or audio book while walking or exercising sounds simple enough for most people, but it may become more difficult for people in their upper 70s and...

Are you an organ donor? Many of us are. A small imprint on your driver's license, a card you carry or bracelet you wear identifies you as a giving, caring being who has...

Moose, of the Bullwinkle variety, are known to have excellent hearing. They can pick up a mating call from up to two miles away. That's pretty good, don't you think? The Study...

House Ear Institute Researchers Discover a Type of Supporting Cells Resistant to Notch Signaling Los Angeles, CA - January 20, 2009 - In a new study in the January 20 issue of...

Physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago performed a rare surgery this week to restore hearing to a deaf patient. Marisela Leon, 44, has...

The vestibular system, a series of fluid-filled canals in the inner ear, is essential for maintaining our balance, posture, and the body's orientation in space. Disorders of this...