Recent content by Joeseph Stope

It will be interesting to follow the research lines of Cilcare with their man-made organoid, as well as the work developed by James Hudspeth (R.I.P.) and the Rockefeller Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._James_Hudspeth Researching the same phenomenon from two...

Organoids? Are these like living organs, then? It seems that if so, they’re working in parallel with the Rockefeller University project, where auditory scientists extracted a small section of a gerbil cochlea and kept it alive in an electronic chamber.

I’ll second that! It’s so easy to fall into the trap of thinking, “What kind of juice shop is this anyway? I’ve been waiting here for… {insert number of years you’ve had tinnitus} years! What kind of service is this?” The sad truth is that tinnitus, and hearing loss too, are among the orphans...

Well, I’m the opposite! I have it in my left ear, since 1992 — thirty-three years ago. It’s no longer the awful threat it once was, but the hyperacusis is still a big problem. So I’m waiting for the printout, as listening to TV, a smartphone, or internet speakers will bring on a tinnitus spike...

First living cochlea outside the body shows how hearing really works Some more euphoria for you all. Why am I bringing this up again? Well, I think those first in line for the euphoria are the scientific community, audiologists and researchers in particular. The breakthrough is bound to...

Splendid idea! I can foresee immense savings if, instead of holding a presidential election, they simply flipped a coin. Heads, Trump wins. Tails, the Democratic challenger wins. The United States and the world would be spared all the noise of primaries, backbiting, scams, and all the related...

Oh, what a lovely world! War in Europe, genocide in the Middle East, chaos in America, Japan growing old and gray, and China? Well, we don’t really know.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2025/0825/trump-science-brain-drain-europe Now, I’m not a Christian Scientist, but I do respect the journal they publish. I also recall an article from CNN saying much the same thing—that the Trumpian and Muskian cuts to research and development have...

Well, it’s nice to have someone who can translate things down to my level. I spend a lot of time wondering what caused the latest spike. Most of the time, I would put it down to some noise event. Another plausible explanation is my poor sleep pattern. I can fall asleep pretty easily, but I tend...

While we are awaiting the launch of Dr. Susan Shore’s device, it might help pass the time to speculate on how Rockefeller University will make use of this ex vivo living gerbil cochlea. a) They could test some of the earlier small molecules that were used by Otonomy and Frequency Therapeutics...

Some more Euphoria for all of yous: https://scitechdaily.com/a-masterpiece-for-the-first-time-scientists-keep-a-mammalian-cochlea-alive-outside-the-body/ It’s pretty much the same as in the link that @ploughna gave, but with the details explained more clearly for the layman. It appears that...

@AfroSnowman, and in the same theme, those of us who have been here a while remember how the great excitement about Lenire and then FX-322 melted into crushing disappointment. The message boards leading up to those collapses were filled with a constant buzz of manically optimistic comments and...

Doctor, make me young again. What's that expression they use? "Curb your enthusiasm," or something like that. Thirty years of research, and now after the final dress rehearsal, the premiere night performance has been announced. I can hardly wait for curtain-up time, and I am as fixated as the...

Just curious, is there really no way for people who have completed their treatment with Lenire to put it up on eBay or Amazon and sell it second-hand? Excuse my ignorance. I realize, of course, that you would need an audiologist who is well-versed in Lenire to calculate the necessary...

Do you recall the lively discussion with Tom Cync, who managed to emerge from the depths of tinnitus and hyperacusis by somehow “weathering it out” and trying to get used to loud noise? https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/im-fine-%E2%80%94-tinnitus-is-basically-not-a-thing-anymore.55510/...