A University of Iowa faculty member has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how to prevent permanent hearing loss caused by a widely used anti-cancer drug. ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are developing a mechanical cochlea, a device that functions much like its human counterpart in the ear. Yet, because it is composed of micromachined parts ...

The end result of having outer hair cell electromotility is that we are able to discriminate between sounds that are very close in frequency. The reason for this may be easily understood by ...

Scientists from renowned institutions in Germany have successfully created a microelectromechanical sensor inspired by the cochlea, a hollow, spiral-shaped bone found in the inner ear, TechXplore ...

In the lab of auditory neuroscience professor Amanda Lauer, first-year student Zandy Wong writes project code to help determine levels of hearing loss in mice. As mice can't communicate whether they ...

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 70 years old and have worn hearing aids for about a decade. Over the past several years, my hearing seems to be getting worse. Although I have tried several different kinds of ...

Dear Doctor: I'm contemplating a cochlear implant for my right ear. How do they work, and what is the success rate of such procedures? Dear Reader: Unlike a hearing aid, which is a mechanical ...