Starkey Hosts Global AI Hearing Health Summit
Starkey hosted an exclusive, global AI Hearing Health Summit featuring experts in the AI and hearing healthcare space.
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Microplasma As Potential Treatment for Middle-ear Infection
In a new study, researchers explore the use of microplasma – a highly focused stream of chemically excited ions and molecules – as a noninvasive method for attacking the bacterial biofilms that resist antibiotic treatment in the middle ear.
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CILcare Partners with Vertidiag on Vestibular Solutions
Vertidiag is said to have developed a technical platform to induce controlled vestibular disorders and to measure their functional impacts. This platform uses behavioral pharmacology, along with a battery of cellular and molecular biology tools that support the understanding of the mechanisms of action of potential drug candidates.
Study Challenges Evolution of How Humans Acquired Language
A gene implicated in affecting speech and language, FOXP2, is held up as a “textbook” example of positive selection on a human-specific trait.
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Inner Ear Stem Cells Hold Promise for Restoring Hearing
New evidence in a mouse model shows that spiral ganglion stem cells present in the inner ear are capable of self-renewal.
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Game Technology Teaches Mice and Men to Hear Better in Noisy Environments
When combined with conventional assistive devices, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, “audiogames” may be able to provide hearing impaired individuals with an improved ability to reconnect to the auditory world, says the researchers.
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Nanopores Underlie Our Ability to Tune In a Single Voice
Inner-ear membrane uses tiny pores to mechanically separate sounds, researchers find.
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