The inner ear is crucial for maintaining balance and a steady head posture. It consists of three semicircular canals containing fluid and sensory hair cells that pick up motion in the head. Since ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have figured out a way to harness a tiny electric current in the inner ear. The work, believed to be the first to pull electricity from the cochlea and use it to drive ...

The implant was tested on guinea pigs (their inner ears operate very much like humans'), with the electrodes attached to both sides of the cell membrane. Though the biological battery within the ...

Six patients had normal inner ear function, four had Ménière's disease, and nine had vestibular schwannoma (a benign tumor on a nerve that connects the inner ear to the brain).

The team examined the inner ears of fossilized and modern species, and estimated that warm-bloodedness, or endothermy, emerged in the group around 233 million years ago during the Late Triassic ...

The researchers opted for the ear pinna as their initial focus. It proved ideal because while it contains diverse tissues—skin, cartilage, muscles, and fat—it’s simpler than internal organs ...

That was a bit surprising, since injecting retinoic acid to trigger the regeneration of the ear pinna punch wounds in mice has been tried before by a Polish research team without success in 2022.