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Noise as loud as 85 to 100 decibels over time led to irreversible motor defects and loss of dopamine neurons in a mouse model of pre-symptomatic Parkinson’s disease.

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Embryonic Eavesdropping: How Animals Hear and Respond to Sound

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Slideshow: How Animal Embryos Eavesdrop on the Outside World

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Spider Uses Its Web Like a Giant Engineered Ear

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This Ogre-Faced Spider Can Hear Prey Through Its Legs

Mark Konishi, Pioneer of Studying Behavior’s Neural Basis, Dies

New Hearing Device Isolates Voices

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Long-Sought Hearing Channel Protein Found

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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