Scientists have kept a tiny slice of cochlea alive outside the body, directly witnessing how hair cells amplify sound. The finding confirms a universal principle of hearing and could pave the way for ...

In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University ...

Humans perceive very low-frequency sounds through a unique electrical mechanism in the inner ear, rather than the mechanical ...

The inner ear is a marvel of evolution, but scientists are still puzzled over certain aspects of its operation. Two related studies detail how scientists successfully excised a sliver of an inner ear ...

USC researcher Karolina Charaziak, PhD, has been awarded a $3.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project ...

Examples of the cochlea graphs created using GSP Cochlea and audiogram data from patients with varying hearing loss diagnoses. The nodes are color-coded according to their module membership. A module ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that terahertz imaging can be used to visualize internal details of the mouse cochlea with micron-level spatial resolution. The non-invasive method could ...