The cochlea is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an ...

Over the next two days, this wave of cell cycle exit spreads from the apex of the cochlea to the base. The post-mitotic prosensory domain then begins to differentiate into hair cells and supporting ...

There isn't a frequency that will make you lose control of your bowls, but noise does play a role in our health.

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

This part acts as a type of receiver and stimulator, sending electrical “sound” signals to the brain by stimulating the cochlea. The cochlea is the part of the inner ear that contains nerve ...

The results add to an early but growing body of evidence suggesting gene therapy may improve outcomes in young kids with a genetic form of deafness.

Everyone is familiar with the traditional in-ear design, right? Where a driver in each earbud fires music through a tube, ...

Hearing loss, frequently due to exposure to loud noises, is a significant health problem. Its biological underpinning may well be due to what we consider a trace mineral: zinc.

These vibrations are transferred to three small bones inside your middle ear and then to your cochlea, which is shaped like a snail shell and filled with fluid. Inside the cochlea, the moving ...

SZN-043 Phase 1a clinical trial results to be presented at the 2024 European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in MilanPreclinical ...

Sick New World is back. The marathon of heavy music kicks off today at 11:10 a.m. and runs until midnight at the Las Vegas ...

Aging Health. 2012;8(2):107-109. Of special concern when considering hearing in aging is the loss of hair cells located on the basilar membrane in the cochlea in the inner ear: some 12,000 ...