Science news articles about 'tiny hair cells'

  • Scientists grow cochlea hair cells

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have grown tiny hair cells that are necessary for hearing, suggesting a new therapy to regain hearing might be possible.
  • St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing

    ... drugs such as aspirin. Sound entering the cochlea is detected by the vibration of tiny, hair-like cilia that extend from cochlear hair cells. While the cochlea’s “inner ...
  • New nano device detects immune system cell signaling

    ... media used to culture cells) through one channel that opens up into a chamber filled with hundreds of tiny, three ... first." When she did so, the T-cells in the second chamber immediately began lighting ...
  • Molecular evolution is echoed in bat ears

    ... University in Shanghai, studied a gene called Prestin that codes for a protein of the outer hair cells - the tiny structures in the inner ear that help to give mammals their sensitive hearing (Prestin ...
  • Salk researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair

    ... looked and acted liked embryonic stem cells created a media stir. But the process was woefully ... generated iPS cells from the tiny number of keratinocytes attached to a single hair plucked from a human ...
  • Superglue from the sea

    ... , anti-inflammatory medicines or even stem cells to sites where bone fragments are glued, " ... they gather food and particles to build their shells with." Tiny, hair-like cilia brush the sand grains ...
  • Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells

    ... 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill ... melanoma and drug-resistant breast cancer cells growing in laboratory cultures. The discovery could lead to ...
  • New 3-D test method for biomaterials 'flat out' faster

    ... these two-dimensional substrates are neither consistent with cells’ normal 3-D environment inside ... chemical makeup of the tiny scaffolds affected the ability of bone-building cells called osteoblasts ...
  • Model shows how mutation tips biochemistry to cause Alzheimer's

    ... heart gives out. Curse you, little red-haired girl! Like staff change at the donut ... brain cells, leading to the early deterioration of mental capacity and, eventually, death. “It is a really tiny ...
  • The photonic beetle

    ... make solar cells more efficient, to capture light that would catalyze chemical reactions, and to generate tiny laser ... ) long by 100 microns wide. A human hair is about 100 microns thick. Green light – ...
  • Otters reveal their identity

    ... at the surface of the intestine are constantly regenerated in vertebrates and the old cells are discarded, tiny DNA traces are found on each faecal sample therefore revealing the individual they came ...
  • Clemson scientists put a (nano) spring in their step

    ... It turns out that fragility is the price for miniaturization, especially when it comes to small devices, such as cell phones, hitting the floor. Wouldn't it be great if they bounced instead of cracked ...
  • Does Juvenon work as an anti-aging supplement?

    ... are missing one of the real driving forces behind aging. Over the years, cells throughout the body lose mitochondria, tiny powerhouses that provide energy for all sorts of ...
  • Nano-sized 'trojan horse' to aid nutrition

    ... and Pharmaceutical Sciences have designed a nanoparticle, one thousandth the thickness of a human hair, that protects antioxidants from being destroyed in the gut and ensures a better chance of them ...
  • When particles are so small that they seep right through skin

    ... in other areas of the body. In her study, she found that the particles accumulate around the hair follicles and in tiny skin folds. DeLouise, a chemist, points out that her study did not directly ...

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