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Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss: Potential and Limitations
May 11, 2012 — Regenerating sensory hair cells could form the basis for treating age- or trauma-related hearing loss. One way to do this could be with gene therapy that drives new sensory hair cells to grow. ... > full story -
Key Cellular Mechanisms Behind the Onset of Tinnitus Identified
May 10, 2012 — Research into hearing loss after exposure to loud noises could lead to the first drug treatments to prevent the development of ... > full story -
Scientists Find New Pieces of Hearing Puzzle
May 8, 2012 — Researchers have gained important new insights into how our sense of hearing works. Their findings promise new avenues for scientists to understand what goes wrong when people experience ... > full story -
Hearing and Touch Have Common Genetic Basis: Gene Mutation Leads to Impairment of Two Senses
May 1, 2012 — New research shows that hearing and touch have a common genetic basis. In patients with Usher syndrome, a hereditary form of deafness accompanied by impaired vision, researchers have discovered a ... > full story -
Restoring Hearing With Discrete Device: A Middle-Ear Microphone for More Convenient Cochlear Implants
April 30, 2012 — Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients from ... > full story -
Novel Genetic Loci Identified for High-Frequency Hearing Loss
April 27, 2012 — The genetics responsible for frequency-specific hearing loss have remained elusive until recently, when genetic loci were found that affected high-frequency hearing. Now, a study reports, for the ... > full story -
Cochlear Implants Restore Hearing in Rare Disorder
April 21, 2012 — Cochlear implantation provides an effective and safe way of restoring hearing in patients with far advanced otosclerosis, a hereditary condition that can lead to severe hearing ... > full story -
Insomnia Takes Toll on Tinnitus Patients
April 19, 2012 — Insomnia can have a negative effect on tinnitus, worsening the functional and emotional toll of chronic ringing, buzzing, hissing or clicking in the head and ears, according to a new ... > full story -
Study to Test New Tinnitus 'Treatment'
March 20, 2012 — A new clinical trial is to test whether a pocket-sized device that uses sound simulation to reboot faulty ‘wiring’ in the brain could cure people with the debilitating hearing disorder ... > full story -
Discovery of Hair-Cell Roots Suggests the Brain Modulates Sound Sensitivity
March 8, 2012 — The hair cells of the inner ear have a previously unknown "root" extension that may allow them to communicate with nerve cells and the brain to regulate sensitivity to sound vibrations and head ... > full story
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