Sea anemone proteins could repair damaged hearing
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 18:31
in Biology & Nature
Summer is always the best time of year to get a good blasting at a festival or mega-band concert, but how many of us give a thought to our delicate sense of hearing as our ears are assaulted? Birds are capable of replacing damaged hair cells in the inner ear after exposure to loud sound, but mammals are not, potentially leading to deafness.