hearing loss

An aqueduct connecting the brain to the ear may make gene therapy for hearing loss less invasive.

Researchers reduce the severity of hereditary deafness in mice with the delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 protein-RNA complexes that inactivate a mutant gene in their inner ears. 

With a clinical trial underway to restore vision optogenetically, researchers also see promise in using the technique to treat deafness, pain, and other conditions.

Music sounds very different to cochlear implant users. Researchers are trying to improve the experience.

Researchers isolate stem cells from the mouse cochlea and convert them into auditory hair cells, potentially paving the way for therapies to treat hearing loss.

Acting Chief, Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Age: 38

In 2015, The Scientist dove deep into the latest research on aging, HIV, hearing, and obesity.

How Ebola hides from immune cells; gut microbes’ role in immunotherapy response; new mechanisms of hearing loss; butterflies use milkweed toxins to ward off predators

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

Given the diverse cell types and complex structure of the human inner ear, will researchers ever be able to re-create it?

Meet Tilak Ratnanather, the deaf biomedical engineer who mentors hard-of-hearing students headed for STEM careers.

Researchers explore the benefits of hearing loss and impairment.

Auditory research advances worth shouting about

Meet some of the people featured in the September 2015 issue of The Scientist.

For decades, the only remedies for hearing loss were devices such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. Now, the first pharmaceutical treatments may be on the way.
 

See the latest in cochlear implants from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.