The illustration shows a cross-section of part of the cochlea, the fluid-filled part of the inner ear that converts vibrations from incoming sounds into nerve signals that travel to the brain via ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ...

The findings were powered by a new imaging tool, which allowed scientists to collect images of the cochlea in awake animals for the first time. The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound ...

Top: Rows of healthy sensory hair cells in the mouse inner ear with green stereocilia arcs. Middle: In Rest mutant mice, hair cells are disorganized, and stereocilia barely visible. Bottom: In ...

If some speakers in your sound system were broken, you might try to compensate by cranking up the volume on the ones that ...

The findings were powered by a new imaging tool, which allowed scientists to collect images of the cochlea in awake animals for the first time. The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound ...