The adult mammalian cochlear sensory epithelium houses two major types of cells, mechanosensory hair cells and underlying supporting cells, and lacks regenerative capacity. Recent evidence indicates ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1954, Towards the virtual physiological human: mathematical and computational case studies (13 November 2011) ...

During development, a pool of nearly identical progenitor cells gives rise to these different cell types, but the factors that guide the transformation of progenitors into hair cells are not fully ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates three per 1,000 babies are born with moderate to profound hearing loss. But thanks to newborn hearing screenings, deaf and hard of hearing infants can be ...

The organ of Corti – the hearing organ of the inner ear - forms from a ribbon of progenitor cells running the length of the cochlear duct, termed the prosensory domain. Starting at about embryonic day ...

A team of researchers has generated a developmental map of a key sound-sensing structure in the mouse inner ear. Scientists at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders ...

Researchers found mutations in a master-switch protein called Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Protein 1 in individuals with a type of congenital hearing loss. In general, what connects most of the ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

New York, July 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Cochlear Implants Pipeline Report including Stages of Development, Segments, Region and Countries, ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates three per 1,000 babies are born with moderate to profound hearing loss. But thanks to newborn hearing screenings, deaf and hard of hearing infants can be ...