Researchers have taken an important step toward what may become a new approach to restore hearing loss. In a new study, out today in the European Journal of Neuroscience, scientists have bee... Read more
NIH and Iowa researchers shed light on molecular mechanisms of inherited form of human deafness A small-molecule drug is one of the first to preserve hearing in a mouse model of an inherited... Read more
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells—a finding that could lead to new platforms to model d... Read more
In the summer of 2015, a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported restoring rudimentary hearing in genetically deaf mice using gene therapy. Now the Bost... Read more
Multicenter study led by NYU Langone Medical Center shows that device leads to major improvements in hearing and speech recognition People with a common form of hearing loss not helped by he... Read more
A healthy ear is much better at detecting and transmitting sound than even the most advanced hearing aid. But now researchers reporting in the August 20 issue of the Biophysical Journal, a C... Read more
The sounds of success are ringing at Kansas State University through a research project that has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance. Philine Wangemann, university distingu... Read more
Hearing loss is a significant public health problem affecting almost 50 million people in the United States alone. Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form and is caused by the los... Read more
The health and wellness industry is in serious need of disruptive innovation Recently, we saw a huge reaction to the story of how a patent lawsuit was threatening to silence a little girl by... Read more
Bionic Ears – Introduction to State of the Art Hearing Aid Technology The exciting thing about being present year after year at one of the world’s largest and most multi-disciplinary hacker... Read more