Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a highly prevalent sensory disorder globally, affecting over 1.5 billion people, with a ...

Irreversible hearing loss can be age-related, congenital, or acquired during childhood and is due to the inability of the cochlear sensory epithelium to replace hair cells. Transplantation of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells in an advance that could eventually help people with an intractable form of deafness caused by ...

Discovered: RC cockroaches; female snakes conceive for themselves; anti-obesity campaigns engender stigma; deaf gerbils given stem cell transplants hear. Virgin snake births. They're not quite capable ...

The inner ear is a highly specialised sensory organ responsible for converting mechanical sound waves into neural signals through mechanosensitive hair cells. Despite their essential role in hearing, ...