Forget what you knew about when mammals developed modern hearing. New research pushes that milestone back 50 million years, to a creature that lived 250 million years ago, just as the age of dinosaurs began.

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Researchers identified 211 distinct genetic mutations linked to childhood deafness in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, and Jordan, with over a third being new. The breakthrough ends decades of diagnostic uncertainty for families wondering if their deaf ...

The University of Chicago has uncovered a genetic cause behind a rare congenital hearing loss and two existing treatments. This breakthrough could change our approach to rare deafness and age-related hearing loss.

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Imagine a world where being born with a genetic hearing disorder doesn't mean a lifetime of silence. That future is closer than you think. Scientists from Tel Aviv University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully kept a mammalian cochlea—the delicate, spiral-shaped organ responsible for hearing—alive and functioning outside of the body. This significant achievement, reached shortly before the passing of renowned ...