Scientists kept an inner ear alive outside the body for the first time

The ability to analyze how the inner ear works could help provide better therapies, especially for sensorineural hearing loss ...
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Inner ear has a need for speed

Scientists and engineers have modeled a hidden mechanism in the inner ear that helps mammals balance via the fastest-known signal in the brain. The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn ...
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Nanoprobe achieves sharper MRIs of the inner ear

A computer rendering of an iron oxide nanoparticle with squiggly green polyethylene glycol chains sticking out of it and yellow IETP2 peptides sticking off the ends of those chains. The new nanoprobe ...
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Inner ear has a need for speed

HOUSTON – (Jan. 18, 2023) – The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn our heads without dizziness or loss of balance contain specialized synapses that process signals faster than any ...