The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand hearing functions and open the door to new hearing loss treatments, scientists ...

Research team awarded five-year, $3.2 million grant from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders AHL is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults, ...

Hearing researchers require detailed images of stereocilia, the bundles of protrusions that detect sound and movement. The red hairs featured on the right were rescued to full length due to gene ...

A cochlear signal, the exact role of which has been unclear since its discovery around 70 years ago, probably gives the brain information on whether the ear is functioning normally or not. These new ...

The act of hearing is like a ballroom dance, scientist Jaime García-Añoveros says. Tiny hair cells lined up in the outer ear leap and sway, transmitting sound’s vibrations to other hair cells in the ...