Surviving dance club music (noise) with hearing intact

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 05:21 in Biology & Nature

By tweaking a system in the ear that limits how much sound is heard, a global team of researchers has discovered one alteration that shows that the ability of the ear to turn itself down contributes to protecting against permanent hearing loss. The report appears this week in PLoS Biology.

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