The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand hearing functions and open the door to new hearing loss treatments, scientists ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Key Takeaways The cochlear nerve is part of the eighth cranial nerve and is crucial for hearing.Issues with the cochlear nerve can result from inflammation, ...

University of California San Diego biologists have now leveraged artificial intelligence to create a tool that provides previously unseen 3D views of cochlear hair cells. Within cochlea cells, bundles ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a specific type of cell in the inner ear plays a commanding role in shaping the cellular landscape of the organ responsible for hearing, according ...

MPR spoke with Dr Daniela Carvalho, an investigator in the CHORD trial, the results form which formed the basis for the approval of Otarmeni.

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods allow, offering a new tool for hearing loss research. Research into how this ...

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of “modes” within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

Irreversible hearing loss can be age-related, congenital, or acquired during childhood and is due to the inability of the cochlear sensory epithelium to replace hair cells. Transplantation of ...