New Drug Cocktail Unlocks Potential to Regrow Inner-Ear ‘Hair’ Cells
![Using a drug cocktail in a petri dish, researchers can now grow colonies of sound-sensing hair cells (magenta) with intricate hair bundles (cyan) from a single cochlear hair cell. This finding may accelerate the development of new therapies for hearing loss.](https://www.minterest.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Researchers-Make-Progress-in-Treating-Hearing-Loss-300x200.jpg)
A team of researchers has developed a new approach to replace damaged sound-sensing hair cells, which eventually may lead to therapies for people who live with disabling hearing loss. Like a snail shell in a human’s inner ear, spirals are roughly 15,000 “hair” cells receive, translate, and then ship sound signals to the brain. Damage to these cells from excessive
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