Vellus hair: This is the fine, almost invisible fuzz that covers much of our bodies, including the outer ear and earlobes. It appears in childhood and regulates body temperature by providing a thin ...

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 ...

The discovery of a genetic switch could be instrumental in producing mechanosensory hair cells of the inner ear that die due to aging, loud noises, chemotherapy, or antibiotics, resulting in deafness.

Researchers from the Salk Institute and the University of Sheffield completed a study that they say shows promise for the development of gene therapies to repair hearing loss. In developed countries, ...

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

(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.

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, ...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and noticed a stray hair on your ear? Maybe it was thin and barely noticeable, or perhaps it was a thick, stubborn strand that caught you by surprise. Ear hair can ...