(Daniel Heighton/istock) The human brain is creatively malleable, producing breathtaking art such as The Starry Night (twice) and the Large Hadron Collider to reveal different sides of reality, ...

A new review charts the rapid rise of AAV-mediated OTOF gene replacement therapy, from the first human trials to the first ...

To see a 3-year-old boy who was born with profound deafness simply smile and point to the sounds coming from a nearby speaker felt like nothing short of a medical miracle to everyone in the room.

The team, composed of investigators from clinical audiology, ear surgery and general otolaryngology, was led by co-first ...

A large-scale computational study finds that protein misfolding may underlie a substantial share of hereditary hearing loss, ...

Deafness, the most common sensorineural hearing loss at all stages of life, occurs either independently or as part of syndromes associated with other symptoms, such as Usher syndrome type 1. In a ...

In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

Deaf musicians have shaped classical music for centuries, but only recently have innovations like haptic vests and Auslan signers enabled deeper connections.

Such scenes might seem unremarkable, but a few months before the first video was recorded, the boy had been severely deaf, having been born with a rare form of hearing loss known as DFNB9 (autosomal ...

Deafness often remains invisible, especially in contexts of constrained resources and poverty. It can exact a high cost for both developed and developing countries because it has a significant impact ...

A new study presents an innovative treatment for deafness, based on the delivery of genetic material into the cells of the inner ear. The genetic material 'replaces' the genetic defect and enables the ...