Elon Musk, now focusing more on business ventures such as SpaceX and Neuralink after leaving his role at the US Government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the end of May, has sparked ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel ...

In a world-first feat of art meeting technology, 17-year-old Nivrritii Mahesh (Nivi), a bilateral cochlear implant recipient, ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging" (MBExC) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases ...

This results in excitation of the corresponding hair cells and the generation of a cochlear nerve impulse. Thus, the hair cells play a major role in the conversion of mechanical (acoustic) energy ...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

We encounter many kinds of noise everywhere we go. Depending on sound levels and duration of exposure, some noise can affect hearing long-term. In fact, noise exposure is one of the most common ...

Severance Hospital recently achieved 3,000 cases of auditory implant surgery. The process by which a person hears sounds goes ...

Nerve-related hearing loss, medically termed sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), occurs when damage affects the inner ear's delicate hair cells, the auditory nerve, or the brain's sound-processing ...

The new Cochlear™ Nucleus® Nexa™ System is the first and only hearing implant featuring internal memory and upgradeable ...

I first began to go deaf several years ago when I developed Meniere’s disease, which damaged my inner ear and affected my ...

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