Otolaryngology

From the moment a baby is born, they are put through a battery of screenings to test for all sorts of characteristics, which includes the sense of hearing. One in 500 newborns fail their newborn hearing screens and are diagnosed with hearing loss, making this the most prevalent sensory deficit in hu more

Using a drug cocktail in a petri dish, researchers can now grow colonies of sound-sensing hair cells (magenta) with intricate hair bundles (cyan) from a single cochlear hair cell. This finding may accelerate the development of new therapies for hearing loss. Inside a bony structure that spirals like more

To treat children with a missing or under-developed ear, experienced surgeons harvest pieces of rib cartilage from the child and carve them into the framework of a new ear. They take only as much of that precious cartilage as they need. That leaves medical residents without an authentic material to more

ABSTRACT Objective: EBV detection using nasopharyngeal swabs has been suggested as a potential screening test that could improve the specificity of current EBV‐based serological assays. However, application requires insertion of the swab deep into the nasopharynx, a procedure not amenable to n more

Erratum to: Simple technique for RNA purification from mouse inner ear hair cells Content Type Journal Article Category Erratum Pages 5047-5047 DOI 10.1007/s11033-012-1612-1 Authors Marcin Szaumkessel, Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Strzeszynska 32, 60-479 more

Abstract   RCAS1 is involved in generating the suppressive profile of the tumor microenvironment that helps cancer cells evade immune surveillance. The status of the cells surrounding the cancer nest may affect both the progression of the cancer and the development of metastases. In cases of ova more