The gene therapy regimen seems to be working wonders, including restoring nearly all hearing to a seven-year-old patient ...

A few days after a routine injection into her inner ear, a seven-year-old girl in China turned her head toward a faint beep.

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 ...

The state-of-the-art technique can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment. The post Groundbreaking gene therapy can restore hearing to deaf ...

One 7-year-old girl who received a traditional cochlear implant in one ear and the gene therapy in another, recovered almost ...

Shape matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea -- the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers ...

The shorter, smaller structures near the base of the cochlea respond best to high frequencies, while the longer, larger structures near the top of cochlea respond best to low frequencies. This is ...

A tiny sensor that mimics how the cochlea in the human ear works could be used for hearing aids or microphones that can pick out sounds in noisy environments. The cochlea can adjust how sensitive ...

“We focus on two populations for cochlear implants – children who are born deaf, and adolescents or adults with progressive hearing loss,” said Dr. Neil Patel, assistant professor of Otolaryngology, ...

A cochlear implant is a small electronic medical device that improves severe hearing loss. It has both pros and cons, and certain risks.