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Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital have successfully used gene therapy to reverse a form of genetic hearing loss in mice. The team corrected a gene mutation that affects sensory hair cells in the inner ear, and the new jigsaw-like method could help improve gene therapy for other disorders.
Tags: Hearing, ear, gene therapy, Boston Children’s Hospital
Continue reading Jigsaw gene therapy reverses genetic hearing loss in mice
Perforations in the eardrum lead to pain and impaired hearing, and can be tricky to repair. The PhonoGraft, developed by Harvard scientists, is a 3D-printed implant that can patch up the damage by encouraging natural cells to regrow, and now it’s enter… Continue reading Harvard’s 3D-printed eardrum repair patch is ready for market
An impressively large study following more than 80,000 people for 11 years has found that difficulty hearing speech in noisy environments can be an early-warning sign of later-life dementia. The next steps for the research will be to investigate whether immediately treating mid-life hearing impairments can reduce the risk of dementia developing in a person’s senior years.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Hearing, Hearing Impaired, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Aging, University of Oxford, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Difficulty hearing speech in noisy rooms may be early sign of dementia
A lot of our projects make noise. It can be something as simple as a microcontroller driving a small speaker or a truly ambitious Hi-Fi project, but common to all …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Start At The Very Beginning
Although cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear again, adjusting the devices to individual users can be challenging. An experimental new implant is designed to help in that regard, by reading the user’s brain waves.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Brain wave-reading implant could better help the deaf to hear
A number of hearing aids are now able to amplify one person’s voice while filtering out distracting background voices. Well, it turns out that female tree frogs are able to perform a similar task, in order to hear the mating calls of males.Continue Rea… Continue reading Female tree frogs found to use their lungs for noise cancellation
We are accustomed to medical devices being expensive, but sometimes the costs seem to far exceed reasonable expectations. At its most simplistic, a hearing aid should just be a battery, microphone, amplifier, and speaker, all wrapped in an enclosure, right? …read more
Continue reading It Costs WHAT?! A Sounding Into Hearing Aids
Last year, Apple teamed up with scientists at the University of Michigan (UM) to study how noise pollution can impact the hearing health of humans. Examination of the data before and then during the stay-at-home and social distancing orders implemented… Continue reading US lockdowns cut personal noise exposure by nearly half, study finds
Tinnitus is an aggravating disorder, causing sufferers to constantly hear a ringing in their ears. A new system could help, though, by simultaneously zapping their tongue and delivering sounds to their ears.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTag… Continue reading Ear-pinging, tongue-buzzing tech used to treat tinnitus
Much mystery surrounds the biological processes behind the human sense of hearing, but with cutting-edge scientific tools researchers are starting to unravel its secrets. A team at Ohio State University has now produced the first ever atomic-level mapp… Continue reading Atomic-level maps of fine ear filaments shine a light on hearing loss