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[nihmedarts]

Cover image for JCI Insight. Image shows a colorized SEM to highlight the architecture of the mouse organ of Corti.

Illustration: Erina He

[gmartinezmolina]

Repost from @nihgov A cross-section of an inner ear “organoid,” or mini inner ear, created by human stem cells. Sound-responding hair cells (red) of the inner ear are topped with hair cell bundles (yellow). #Ear organoids could allow researchers to easily model and test therapies for #hearing and balance disorders.⠀ ⠀ Credit: Karl R. Koehler, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine⠀ ⠀ #NIH support from: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (#NIDCD)

[gmartinezmolina]

Type II Neurons in the Mouse Cochlea por NIH Image Gallery Por Flickr: Type II neurons (green) in the mouse cochlea contact many hair cells, but make up only a small fraction of the neurons in the auditory nerve—the nerve that sends sound information from the ear to the brain. Scientists are just beginning to study the role of Type II neurons in hearing. Credit: Pankhuri Vyas, Ph.D., and Jingjing Sherry Wu, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine NIH support from: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

[gmartinezmolina]

Interwoven Muscle Fibers por NIH Image Gallery Por Flickr: Interwoven muscle fibers of a rat’s tongue. This intricate muscular anatomy allows for the complex tongue movements necessary for vocalizations and swallowing. Credit: Miranda Cullins, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison NIH support from: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

[nihmedarts]

Illustration for journal depicting non-autonomous cellular signals influencing the survival of HCs and SGNs as well as SC proliferation after ototoxic insult

Illustration: Erina He

[historyatnih]

Speech disorders, like pronouncing “f” as “s”, affect about 5% of children by the first grade. What causes most speech disorders, like stuttering, isn’t well understood, although scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are looking into how the brain produces speech. The hope is to find the genetic causes, and perhaps a biological cure, along with improving speech therapy.  

Learn more about all kinds of speech and voice problems at the NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at http://bit.ly/2oGcbpr

[scitechman]

New Research Platform to Improve Hearing-Aid Technologies

New Research Platform to Improve Hearing-Aid Technologies

A team of engineers from the University of California San Diego and audiologists from San Diego State University has set out an ambitious timetable for delivering two new electronic platforms to dramatically improve and accelerate research on better hearing aids. Led by Qualcomm Institute research scientist Harinath Garudadri as well as UCSan Diego co-principal investigators and Electrical and…

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[irpatnih]

For the first time, scientists have used gene therapy to correct defective structures in the inner ears of newborn mice, according to results of a new study by researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health. The mice had a type of hereditary deafness also found in humans.

NIDCD scientists have, for the first time, used gene therapy to fix inner ear defects in newborn mice.