It’s not just New York City battling a rat problem. Over the past year, reports on social media and to government agencies of rats in the Treasure Valley are spiking. What first began as sightings of ...

Researchers have understood for decades that some forms of deafness are inherited, yet until now, few of those genetic clues have led the way to therapy. That is beginning to change. An international ...

Scientists have kept a tiny slice of cochlea alive outside the body, directly witnessing how hair cells amplify sound. The finding confirms a universal principle of hearing and could pave the way for ...

ABSTRACT: Idiopathic tinnitus refers to tinnitus with no clear etiology, typically manifesting as a subjective perception of sound in the ear, which may be accompanied by hearing loss, aural fullness, ...

Macrophages are the primary immune cells in the cochlea, essential for maintaining cochlear homeostasis and orchestrating inflammatory responses to pathological events. Although these cells have been ...

Hough Ear Institute researchers have announced that they have successfully developed a rat model of noise-induced “hidden hearing loss” that preserves hearing but chronically reduces the number of ...

Introduction: Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is linked to dementia, with mitochondrial dysfunction playing a key role in its progression. Deficient mitochondrial tRNA modifications impair protein ...