Thanks to Olson, Manor and his team obtained cochlear samples from adult mice that had normal hearing and were either exposed ...

The illustration shows a cross-section of part of the cochlea, the fluid-filled part of the inner ear that converts vibrations from incoming sounds into nerve signals that travel to the brain via ...

But in mice with genetic hearing loss, cochlear function increased, indicating that the brain was enhancing the cochlea's sensitivity as a response to long-term hearing loss. Measuring cochlear ...