Hough Ear Institute has developed a rat model of tinnitus and hidden hearing loss to advance research into new treatments for the chronic condition.

Neanderthal populations suffered a single late genetic bottleneck, refuting long-held theories about their diversity.

Hospital officials say Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been diagnosed with labyrinthitis after suffering ...

They aren’t really hairs. They’re sensory cells. Hair cells have tiny, bristle-like tufts that stick out – called cilia – ...

They have hair-like protrusions (stereocilia) embedded in the tectorial ... TMC1 channels mediate drug entry into the inner ear, resulting in ototoxicity. In silico screening identified three ...

The ears produce earwax to help keep the ear clean and protect the inner ear from infection. Earwax naturally moves out of the ear, carrying dead skin cells and debris, where it will then dry out ...

A mum who thought long-haul flights caused the ringing in her ears was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. Towards the end of 2022, Megan Williamson, 46, started experiencing the noise. Initially ...

An 11-year-old boy was diagnosed with a rare type of childhood cancer after experiencing symptoms of an ear infection. Ilan Choudhury, now 14, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in the ...

The inner ear contains distinct sensory organs, produced sequentially by segregation from a large sensory-competent domain in the developing otic vesicle. To understand the mechanistic basis of this ...

Chen et al. describe the mechanisms that separate the common pan-sensory progenitor region into individual sensory patches, which presage the formation of the sensory epithelium in each of the inner ...

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Pain behind the ear and down the neck and shoulder may result from tension or injury in the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Other possible symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and tingling.