Mechanosensory hair cells in the inner ear function as the primary transducers for the perception of sound and balance, and defects in their formation result in profound sensory deficits 1. All inner ...

A variety of nerve cells makes it possible for you to orient yourself in space. Several migrate from an embryonic structure called the rhombic lip, and many of these in the auditory, vestibular and ...

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Math1 is a master hub for the genes that control various parts of neural networks for hearing, balance, the unconscious sense of one's position in space called proprioception and in a new finding, ...

EVOLUTION has provided people with an exquisitely sensitive system of hearing and balance—the inner ear. But that sensitivity comes at a price, for the inner ear is also the sensory system most ...

Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as Math1 or Atoh1, said Baylor ...

HOUSTON (Oct. 6, 2005) – Close your eyes and imagine you are in a darkened Carnegie Hall. Although it's pitch black, you know you are getting closer to the stage as the music gets louder. If you have ...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 14, 2009) – Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as ...