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| Breaking the silence with cochlear implants |
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Some evenings after Sherra (B.S.E. ’85, M.S.E. ’92) and Todd (A.B. ’84, J.D. ’89) Payne tuck in their eight-year-old son and turn out the lights, they spend a few minutes talking about things important to little boys. They treasure this intimate time, not only because they love their son, but because they are thrilled that Austin can hear their voices in the dark. The happy, talkative second-grader was born profoundly deaf. But because of a world-renowned cochlear implant program at the University of Miami Ear Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, Austin now can hear. Read the full story |
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| Hearing Restoration May Be Possible After Transplant Of Human Cord Blood Cells |
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation, hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) since they show that a small number migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons. Read the full story |
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| Zebrafish May Help Solve Ringing In War Vets' Ears |
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Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus -- a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears -- twenty years ago after serving in the U.S. Army reserves medical corps. His hearing was damaged by the crack of too many M16 rifles and artillery explosions. He suspects his hearing also suffered from hunting opossum with rifles as a kid on his grandmother's farm in Tennessee. Read the full story |
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| Study Shows Smell May Influence Our Dreams |
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Dr. Boris Stuck is a German researcher who has two different areas of interest – he studies sleep and also the sense of smell (scientists call this olfaction). Several years ago, he decided to combine his two interests and see if smells affected sleep or the dreams people have when they're sleeping. He says there's been very little research on this combination. Read the full story |
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