News tagged with cochlea
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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New findings contradict a prevailing belief about the inner ear
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Feb 12, 2008 |
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A healthy ear emits soft sounds in response to the sounds that travel in. Detectable with sensitive microphones, these otoacoustic emissions help doctors test newborns' hearing. A deaf ear doesn't produce ...
Snakes Hear in Stereo
May 16, 2008 |
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Physicists from the University Munich in Germany and the University of Topeka, Kansas have strong new evidence that snakes can hear through their jaws. Snakes don't have outer ears, leading to the myth that they can't hear ...
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 ...
Analogy of cochlea as resonator could lead to artificial copies
Jan 09, 2007 |
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In attempting to construct an artificial cochlea—and faced with limited knowledge of how the living chamber works—scientists might need to look no further than a simple electronic device: a surface acoustic ...
St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing
May 07, 2008 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will ...
Study shows isolation of stem cells may lead to a treatment for hearing loss
Apr 06, 2007 |
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Have you ever walked by someone listening to their i-Pod loud enough for you recognize the song? Studies have shown noise-induced hearing loss is going to become the next big epidemic affecting our younger generation though ...
MIT finds new hearing mechanism
Oct 11, 2007 |
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MIT researchers have discovered a hearing mechanism that fundamentally changes the current understanding of inner ear function. This new mechanism could help explain the ear's remarkable ability to sense and discriminate ...
Linking low frequency hearing to the cochlea's curvature
Apr 25, 2008 |
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Shape matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea — the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers — which proves ...
The cochlea's spiral shape boosts low frequencies
May 09, 2006 |
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The next time someone whispers in your ear, think "cochlea." The cochlea is the marvelous structure in the inner ear that is shaped like a snail shell and transforms sounds into the nerve impulses that your ...
Desert Snake Hears Mouse Footsteps with its Jaw
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Just a few decades ago, some scientists doubted that snakes could hear at all. Snakes lack an outer ear and external ear openings, making it difficult to understand how the reptiles receive acoustic vibrations.
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