A pleasant conversation is a result of more than just good company. It is due in part to our capacity to hear, but as we age this seemingly effortless ability begins to have limitations. Looking to ...

Cells in the ear commonly believed to act as amplifiers may actually regulate sound sensitivity -- a finding that could lead to better interventions to protect hearing The ear's tiny outer hair cells ...

Most of the cells in your body have an internal "skeleton" that maintains the shape of the cell. Several types of relatively stiff large molecules normally make up the so called cytoskeleton. These ...

Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 51 (December 17, 2019), pp. 25948-25957 (10 pages) The function of outer hair cells (OHCs), the ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism that drives the death of inner ear hair cells, the tiny sensory structures responsible for converting sound into brain signals. The discovery ...

The ear’s tiny outer hair cells adjust the sensitivity of neighboring inner hair cells to sound levels rather than acting like an amplifier, suggests a new study published today in eLife. The ...