News tagged with cochlea
A sound practice: Cochlear implants restore children's hearing
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ava Martin seems less nervous than her parents as the three sit in an audiologist’s office at UC Irvine Medical Center a few days after Labor Day. In August, the 6-year-old had surgery to place a cochlear ...
Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second ...
New radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio (w/Video)
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio ...
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells
Sep 03, 2008 |
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem c ...
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More action is needed to support millions of tinnitus sufferers worldwide
Nov 03, 2009 |
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As many as one in seven people will experience tinnitus, or ringing in their ears, at some time of their life, but not enough is being done to support patients who experience this distressing condition, according to an extensive ...
Which Is King Of Clubs In The Noise Stakes?
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New generation thin-faced titanium golf clubs can produce sound levels nearly twice as loud as traditional steel clubs when they hit a ball, according to new research.
One step closer to an artificial nerve cell
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University (Sweden) are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. ...
Scientists discover molecular defect involved in hearing loss
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated the action of a protein, harmonin, which is involved in the mechanics of hearing. This finding sheds new light on the workings of mechanotransduction, the process ...
Cell transplants may cure deafness
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...
Power steering for your hearing: Ears have tiny 'flexoelectric' motors to amplify sound
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Utah and Texas researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop "hair cells" in the ear: when the tubes dance back and forth, they act as "flexoelectric motors" ...
High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 14, 2009 |
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The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...
MRI reveals inner ear anomalies in children with hearing loss
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), physicians can identify soft-tissue defects that contribute to hearing loss in children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of ...
Biophysical method may help to recover hearing
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Aug 29, 2008 |
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Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss. The authors propose a method of retuning ...
Tuning in to a new language on the fly: Effects of context and seasonality on songbird brain
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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Research conducted at Rutgers University has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ...
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