Under normal circumstances, fluid in your inner ear moves as your body moves. This fluid movement puts pressure on a structure in the ear that contains nonmotile (nonmoving) cells called stereocilia.

Nowadays many people step out of their house without a wallet – but never forget to take their headphones. If you are one of ...

The sounds of life come alive for you through the cochlea, a very sensitive organ in your inner ear. This spiral-shaped ...

Most animals that hear -- even if they don’t have what we’d call ears -- rely on special hair cells, which are named for the little hair-like tufts that come off them called stereocilia.

The stereocilia of the outer hair cells are embedded in the overlying gelatinous tectorial membrane. The perilymph fluid wave causes a frequency-specific movement of the basilar membrane.

Unraveling the molecular identity of the mechanotransduction (MT) channel has long been regarded as the “Holy Grail” in hearing research. Recently, TMC1 and TMC2 (TMC1/2) have emerged as the ...

Water plays a fundamental role in the structure and function of proteins and other biomolecules. The thermodynamic profile of water molecules surrounding a protein is critical for ligand recognition ...