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    Biology of the Inner Ear course at the Marine Biological Laboratory

    By Stefan Heller From August 8 – August 28, 2015, I co-directed the “Biology of the Inner Ear (BIE)” course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA together with Dr. Paul Fuchs

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    New Paper: Genetics of Hearing Loss—Nonsyndromic

    Kay W. Chang, MD, a clinician-scientist in the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, recently published an article in Otolaryngologic Clinics on the genetics of non-syndromic hearing loss. This is a review paper which summarizes

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    Hearing Loss vs. The California Stem Cell Program: Disease-a-Week Challenge #9

    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

    Gene discoveries may lead to regeneration of cells needed for hearing

    by Steve Fisch for Stanford Medicine News Center: The researchers identified patterns of gene expression that may determine whether the ear’s inner pillar cells can give rise to new hair cells, which are key to

    Review Article: Making sense of Wnt signaling—linking hair cell regeneration to development

    Below Dr. Cheng discusses his recent review article for Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, Making sense of Wnt signaling - linking hair cell regeneration to development: Making sense of Wnt signaling - linking hair cell regeneration

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