(BOSTON, April 18, 2023) – Effective hearing loss treatments have eluded medicine because once sensory cells in the inner ear called hair cells are damaged or destroyed, they cannot be regenerated.

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists say they’ve come up with a new drug cocktail of molecules that they say can successfully regenerate the hair cells in the inner ear that enable hearing — a ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect cells of the inner ear, including hair cells, which are critical for both hearing and balance, a new study suggests. Researchers also found that the pattern of ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) say they have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein plays in the development of hair cells which ...