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Diminuendo -- New mouse model for understanding cause of progressive hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The respective microRNA seed region influences the production of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, both in the mouse and in humans. The findings have been published ahead of print in the current online issue of Nature Ge ...


New mouse mutant contains clue to progressive hearing loss

Biology /

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have defined a mutation in the mouse genome that mimics progressive hearing loss in humans. A team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, working with colleagues in Munich and Padua, found ...


Gene linked to a rare form of progressive hearing loss in males is identified

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The gene, PRPS1, ...


Researchers studying hearing loss find auditory regions of the brain convert to the sense of touch

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain.


Scientists identify genetic cause for type of deafness

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a genetic cause of progressive hearing loss. The findings will help scientists better understand the nature of age-related decline in hearing and ...


New insights into progressive hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive hearing loss. The new gene - called a microRNA - is a tiny fragment ...


Scaling the wall of deafness

Scaling the wall of deafness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some form of hearing loss.


Gene responsible for common hearing loss identified for first time

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 17, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A gene responsible for the single most common cause of hearing loss among white adults, otosclerosis, has been identified for the first time, a scientist told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics ...


Progressive resistance strength training helps older people in daily life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Progressive resistance strength training not only helps older adults become stronger but also makes their everyday life easier, a Cochrane Review suggests.


New stem cell therapy may lead to treatment for deafness

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation ...


The evolution of migraine from episodic headache to chronic disorder

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients living with migraine have strong reason for new optimism concerning a positive future. Two review articles and an accompanying editorial, "The Future of Migraine: Beyond Just Another Pill," in the current issue of ...


Technical advances help erase stigma of prosthetics

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A Scottish magazine once ran a headline above an article on former Paralympics track star Aimee Mullins that read, "Can You See Anything Wrong With This Woman? No? Her Either."


Innovative spout will increase maple production up to 90 percent

Innovative spout will increase maple production up to 90 percent

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An innovative new maple spout developed by the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture secured by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, will have a dramatic ...


Large abdominal wall lipoma causes bowel obstruction

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proteus syndrome is a complex disorder associated with varied, disproportionate, asymmetric overgrowth of many body parts and unregulated adipose tissue. The overgrowth seen in Proteus syndrome is progressive and difficult ...


Molecular motors in cells work together, study shows

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Even within cells, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. Molecular motors, the little engines that power cell mobility and the ability of cells to transport internal cargo, work together and in close coordination, ...