A New Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Cells Could Restore Hearing
“One of the most common causes of hearing loss is damage to the thousands of hair cells found within the inner ear. These hair cells detect and translate sound waves into nerve signals, enabling us to hear sound. As crucial as these hair cells are to hearing, these are susceptible to damage caused by excessive noise, old age, or certain medications. Once these hair cells are destroyed in a human ear, they don’t regenerate.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sensory hair cell injury accounts for 90 percent of hearing loss cases in the United States. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that about “360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, and 32 million of these are children.”
But what if these hair cells could be regrown? That’s the idea behind a study conducted by a team of scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their research has long been in the making and is now published in the journal Cell Reports…”
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Its nice ideology to develop hearing capability. So more knowledge or education must well clear given to the society so as to solve the huge problem covering the world
That would be wonderful~~~~
shonie Hutter Haha! Yeah, it’s crazy what’s happening in that world. Between vision, hearing replacement, and destroying cancer by literally editing it out of the genes…science is blowing my mind these days.