Scientists kept an inner ear alive outside the body for the first time

The ability to analyze how the inner ear works could help provide better therapies, especially for sensorineural hearing loss ...
The Atlantic

You Can See Inside Your Ear. That Doesn’t Mean You Should.

The ear is a marvelous, humble organ. It powers our hearing and also our balance, keeping us upright and connected to the world around us. In return, ear doctors tend to ask that we follow one very ...
Yahoo

Extinct ape's inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright

An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. This extinct primate lived in East Asia during the Miocene. “It would have been about the size of a ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Managing vertigo from inner ear fluid buildup

Dear Doctors: I recently experienced severe vertigo due to fluid in my inner ear from a sinus infection. It affected not only my balance, but also my blood pressure and anxiety. Are there any ...