According to the World Health Organization, more than 360 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, and for many, devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants allow them to ...

Jan. 9 -- FRIDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Music therapy can aid speech development in hearing-impaired toddlers after they receive cochlear implants, researchers have found. Cochlear implants can ...

Cochlear implants have restored hearing to many deaf people, but they haven't advanced much since they were unveiled in the 1970s. That may be set to change with an exciting new advance, not in the ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to restore lost hearing: with a cochlear implant that helps the auditory nerve regenerate by delivering gene therapy. Growth factor: The cochlear nerve ...

Australian researchers are trying a novel way to boost the power of cochlear implants: They used the technology to beam gene therapy into the ears of deaf animals and found the combination improved ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

Researchers have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to deliver gene therapy, thereby successfully regrowing auditory nerves. Researchers have for the first ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Bolstering cochlear implants with gene therapy may help people with varying degrees of deafness ...

Many people lose their hearing when the sound-sensitive hair cells in their cochleas die off. When this happens, the spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), which send signals from the hair cells to the brain ...

Another obstacle to gene therapy arises from the fact that rAAV vectors less effectively transfect outer hair cells (OHCs) than inner hair cells (IHCs). 3 This is a major limitation because OHCs are ...