By emitting energy through oscillations, certain hair-cell bundles amplify sound waves so they can be picked up better by other hair-cell bundles.

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, ...

Led by Mathieu Beraneck, researchers at the University of Paris Cité/CNRS and the University of Barcelona explored the strength of the relationship between a type of inner hair cell in the ear and ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Salk Institute and the University of Sheffield completed a study that they say shows promise for the development of gene therapies to repair hearing loss. In developed countries, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Diagnosing damage to a special group of sensory cells in the ear that affects hearing and determining whether a new pharmaceutical compound can protect the inner ear against hearing ...

The discovery of a genetic switch could be instrumental in producing mechanosensory hair cells of the inner ear that die due to aging, loud noises, chemotherapy, or antibiotics, resulting in deafness.

Researchers at Göttingen Campus, Germany, have succeeded for the first time in examining the tiny synapses in the inner ear—the points of contact between the hair cells and the auditory nerve cells—at ...

Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...