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Research challenges decades-old understanding of how we hear sound
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Research challenges decades-old understanding of how we hear sound

by  Linköping University Confocal micrograph of stereocilia on the inner (IHC) and outer (OHCs) hair cells, completely embedded in the tectorial membrane (TM). Credit: Pierre Hakizimana, CC-BY-4.0 First published in doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22870-1 Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair cells of the ear, which convert sounds...