There's a sensation that you experience—near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert—from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ...

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

Research team awarded five-year, $3.2 million grant from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders AHL is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults, ...

The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your body is also quietly listening—at the cellular level. Recent research shows ...

I love visiting with my grandma. But sometimes I have to talk loudly so she can hear me. I asked my friend Christine Portfors why that is. She’s a biologist at Washington State University. She told me ...

At its core, progressive genetic hearing loss arises from alterations in DNA passed down through families. These changes affect genes crucial to hearing, like those responsible for the tiny hair cells ...

When Aissam Dam had the strange device connected to his ear, he had no idea it was going to change his life. An 11-year-old boy, Aissam was born deaf due to a single gene mutation. In October 2023, he ...

The tale of Opal Sandy, a deaf baby, has captured widespread interest. Restoring her hearing through gene therapy holds potential for individuals with genetic deafness and other inherited conditions.