Mike Tinsley (MBTINSZ1 at ulkyvm.louisville.edu) wrote:
:: A while back I was reading a science article that said scientists had
: discovered that hair cells in the ear actually can regrow and repair
: themselves...it just takes a long time for them to do so. Has anyone else
: heard of this? If so, could you make some comments on it?
I'm not an audiologist. The experiment I heard of was with birds, and it was
found that birds can regrow some hair cells after "permanent" noise-induced
hearing loss. Apparently birds are not _so_ different from humans, so it
might be hoped that humans might one day be able to take a drug to cause hair
cell regrowth. That was as far as the experiment that I heard went.
Alan
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