News on Deafness Research

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...

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...

There are roughly 20,000 to 25,000 genes in the human body, and for the most part, each gene is supposedly responsible for encoding one particular protein. However, researchers...

Findings Could Help Scientists Study ConsciousnessPeople with tune deafness arent able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains...

New York, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is hosting a special 50th Anniversary Celebration to recognize a half century of in...

Champaign, Ill. Scientists exploring the physics of hearing have found an underlying molecular cause for one form of deafness, and a conceptual connection between deafness the...

-Extensive, Multi-Year Campaign Launched to Fill Educational Gap-Pittsburgh, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Children with even profound deafness can learn to listen and talk as well as...

Success caps 15-year effort by scientists, engineers and physicians of the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles and the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena LOS...

Becker Medical Library, Washington University and Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) in St. Louis, Missouri, are pleased to announce the opening of a joint virtual exhibition...