Figure 2: Utricular hair cells in mutant mice show stereocilia defects at P0 and E18. Figure 5: The ECM is perturbed in the utricle of Itga8-deficient mice. We conclude that, in the absence of ...

Evolution likes to borrow. It can take an already-successful biological structure and alter it until it serves a new function. Two independent groups studying the proteins that organize gut microvilli ...

Scientists at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) report that they have discovered some key mechanisms underlying how stereocilia — the tiny hair-like ...

The sensory cells of the inner ear have tiny hairs called stereocilia that play a critical part in hearing. It has long been known that these stereocilia move sideways back and forth when stimulated ...

Hearing researchers require detailed images of stereocilia, the bundles of protrusions that detect sound and movement. The red hairs featured on the right were rescued to full length due to gene ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 51 (December 17, 2019), pp. 25948-25957 (10 pages) The function of outer hair cells (OHCs), the ...

Some people have hairy ears, but everyone has so-called hair cells in their ears. The key to hearing, these cells sport hairlike projections named stereocilia, which bend in response to sound waves.

University of California San Diego biologists have now leveraged artificial intelligence to create a tool that provides previously unseen 3D views of cochlear hair cells. Within cochlea cells, bundles ...

Minute bundles of hair cells in the inner ear are entirely replaced every 48 hours, US research shows. The finding could explain the average two-day duration of temporary hearing loss caused by ...

Evolution likes to borrow. It can take an already-successful biological structure and alter it until it serves a new function. Two independent groups studying the proteins that organize gut microvilli ...