Think for a moment about your favorite sounds…

Music, perhaps, like the young Julie Andrews singing “I Could Have Danced All Night” from MY FAIR LADY; or the laughter of someone you love, like when my wife Gloria wins at cards for the 43rd time in a row; or Nature, the whistle of wind through a pine tree forest, the crash of surf on a distant shore, or the snarling inhalation of a Bengal tiger.

Now imagine those sounds gone: gone forever, leaving only perpetual silence.

Read more… Don C. Reed outlines for the Huffington Post the work underway in the Cheng and Heller labs to cure hearing loss using to different approaches with stem cells.