The mammalian cochlea is an extraordinary biomechanical system whose capacity for sensitivity and frequency discrimination hinges on intricate interactions between its passive structures and active ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes. When this newly discovered function goes ...

Hearing loss is a major global health challenge, affecting over 5% of the population and largely lacking effective biological therapies. Mutations in KCNQ4, which encodes the Kv7.4 potassium channel ...