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An ear made from the person’s own cells was surgically attached in March, the company behind the technology says.

An ancient animal’s hammer, anvil, and stirrup bones are at the base of the jaw but completely detached from it.

A swollen wing vein helps butterflies detect low-frequency sounds.

After a decades-long pursuit, researchers have confirmed the identity of the pore of the mechanotransduction channel in vertebrates’ inner ear hair cells.

The tissue, grown on a 3-D scaffold and seeded from the kids’ own cells, was transplanted to correct deformities in their cartilage.

Deficiency in a protein called pejvakin makes inner ear cells more vulnerable to sound, unable to brace themselves against oxidative stress stimulated by noise. 

Localization of two proteins important for inner ear hair cell function suggests they are part of the elusive mechanotransduction channel. 

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Scientists map the position of cells within the organ of Corti.

Fetal specimens collected by commercial whalers offer insights into how whales may have evolved their specialized hearing organs.

A teaching obligation in graduate school introduced James Hudspeth to a career focused on how vertebrates sense sounds.

A molecular signature makes it possible to trace the details of hair cell replacement in the mammalian inner ear.

Support cells in the inner ear respond differently to two drugs that kill hair cells.

Common in vitro experiments have distorted the true mechanics of mammalian hair cell stereocilia.

A combination of microinjection and electroporation inserts genes into hard-to-reach cells.

People with a defect in an ion channel that causes deafness are more sensitive to certain types of touch.