Hearing Loss

Harvard researchers regenerate sound-sensing cells of mice with hearing damage

February 21, 2014

Harvard stem cell scientists have made an unexpected and potentially useful discovery that the sound-sensing cells of the mammalian ear—called hair cells--can be replaced, at least at low levels. Despite years of evidence indicating that ear sensory cells do not regenerate if lost, new research from the laboratory of...

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