Have you ever looked in the mirror and noticed a stray hair on your ear? Maybe it was thin and barely noticeable, or perhaps it was a thick, stubborn strand that caught you by surprise. Ear hair can ...

A stray ear hair might seem like a trivial detail, a minor imperfection in the grand scheme of things. Yet, if your wife expresses a sudden aversion to this previously unnoticed feature, it can leave ...

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 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, ...

Your ears age faster than you think. Delicate hair cells in your inner ear get damaged by loud noises. This hearing loss can ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a specific type of cell in the inner ear plays a commanding role in ...

(BOSTON, April 18, 2023) – Effective hearing loss treatments have eluded medicine because once sensory cells in the inner ear called hair cells are damaged or destroyed, they cannot be regenerated.

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, ...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, ...