A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. Prestin makes a protein found in the hair cells of the inner ear that contracts and expands rapidly ...

As mammals, we have very sensitive hearing, thanks to a process known as cochlear amplification. This amplification is down to sensory cells in the inner ear called outer hair cells (OHCs), and it is ...

The fast motor kinetics of prestin, a protein found in the inner ear, is essential for hearing high-frequency sounds, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Proceedings of the ...

To test whether prestin, and therefore OHC electromotility, is necessary for normal cochlear mechanical amplification, we obtained three measures of in vivo hair cell response from anaesthetized mice ...

Millions of years before humans invented sonar, bats and toothed whales had mastered the biological version of the same trick – echolocation. By timing the echoes of their calls, one group ...

A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. A new study has shown that prestin has also independently evolved to play a critical role in the ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. Prestin makes a ...