How Seafood in Diet Affects Tinnitus Risk: An Interview with Sharon Curhan, MD, ScM
A Q&A with Dr Sharon Curhan about her new study highlighting a link between seafood intake and risk of developing chronic tinnitus.
A Q&A with Dr Sharon Curhan about her new study highlighting a link between seafood intake and risk of developing chronic tinnitus.
Frequency Therapeutics, Inc (Nasdaq: FREQ) announced the expansion of its clinical development team with the addition of Jeffery T. Lichtenhan, PhD, an expert in hearing diagnostics and measurement.
The University at Buffalo will hold its 2020 Northeast Audiology Conference (NEAC) via Zoom on November 14 between 9 am - 5 pm.
The study, published in “JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery,” looked at 19.9 million veterans; 50% of them lived at least 80 miles from a facility offering cochlear implants, and 4 million lived 160 or more miles from one.
Read MoreUtilizing a more “precise” version of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital were able to turn off the defective TMC1 gene that causes hearing loss, leaving the healthy copy unaffected.
Read MoreUtilizing a more “precise” version of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital were able to turn off the defective TMC1 gene that causes hearing loss, leaving the healthy copy unaffected.
Read MoreThe human ear, like those of other mammals, is so extraordinarily sensitive that it can detect sound-wave-induced vibrations of the eardrum that move by less than the width of an atom. Now, researchers at MIT have discovered important new details of how the ear achieves this amazing ability to pick up faint sounds.
Read MoreWith the majority of telehealth consultations occurring in the home, sessions offered through smart home devices could create a channel where both consumer and healthcare data flow seamlessly through one device back to a commercial retailer.
Read MoreThe researchers found that activating the ERBB2 pathway triggered a cascading series of cellular events by which cochlear support cells began to proliferate and start the process of activating other neighboring stem cells to become new sensory hair cells.
Read MoreThe investigation shows that the beneficial effects on cognition can be blocked by the hostile inflammatory environment present in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and that physical exercise can “clean up” the environment, allowing new nerve cells to survive, thrive, and improve cognition in the Alzheimer’s mice.
Read MoreThe results of their research, reported August 22 in “Neuron,” reveal that TMC1, a protein discovered in 2002, forms a sound- and motion-activated pore that allows the conversion of sound and head movement into nerve signals that travel to the brain—a signaling cascade that enables hearing and balance.
Read MoreAkouos is developing targeted adeno-associated viral vector (AAV)-based gene therapies for sensorineural hearing loss, which results from dysfunction or damage to sensory cells and/or nerve fibers of the inner ear.
Read MoreProgenitor Cell Activation (PCA) utilizes small molecules to awaken dormant progenitor cells already in the body and reportedly has the opportunity to address numerous degenerative diseases such as hearing loss, demyelinating diseases, skin disorders, and gastrointestinal conditions.
Read MoreCurrently, patients with symptomatic or growing vestibular schwannomas can undergo surgical resection (through craniotomy) or radiation therapy; however, both of these procedures come with significant risks.
Read MoreAnc-AAVs are in silico-designed adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs), first developed in the laboratory of Dr Luk H. Vandenberghe, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
Read MoreThis gift reportedly represents one of the country’s largest philanthropic investments ever to advance research on hearing and hearing loss, a significant public health problem impacting one-third of the world’s population over age 65.
Read MoreResearchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells—a finding that could lead to new platforms to model disease and new therapies for the treatment of hearing and balance disorders.
Read MoreSharon G. Kujawa, an auditory neuroscientist who studies how aging and noise exposure can impact hearing, has been selected to receive the biennial Callier Prize in Communication Disorders for her research into the connections between the hair cells and the nerve fibers (synapses) that are most vulnerable—what is now being referred to as “hidden hearing loss.”
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