New study traces how a protein essential for hearing evolved from an ancient ion channel into today’s exquisitely sensitive ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes. When this newly discovered function goes ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a specific type of cell in the inner ear plays a commanding role in shaping the cellular landscape of the organ responsible for hearing, according ...

Led by Mathieu Beraneck, researchers at the University of Paris Cité/CNRS and the University of Barcelona explored the strength of the relationship between a type of inner hair cell in the ear and ...

Sensory hair cells of the mouse inner ear stained with phalloidin to highlight actin-rich structures called stereocilia, which are arranged in bundles forming the mechanosensory organelle of the inner ...

I love visiting with my grandma. But sometimes I have to talk loudly so she can hear me. I asked my friend Christine Portfors why that is. She’s a biologist at Washington State University. She told me ...

Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different ...

Sensory hair cells of the mouse inner ear stained with phalloidin to highlight actin-rich structures called stereocilia, which are arranged in bundles forming the mechanosensory organelle of the inner ...