Stem cell studies tune into hearing regeneration

A deafened adult cannot recover the ability to hear, because the sensory hearing cells of the inner ear don’t regenerate after damage. In two new studies, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), USC stem cell scientists explain why this is the case and how we might be able to change it.

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