Some more Euphoria for all of yous:
Researchers have captured the living mechanics of hearing for the first time by sustaining a piece of cochlear tissue outside the body. Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his colleagues at The Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience accomplished a m
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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 after some work with bullfrogs, which are also vertebrates with a backbone, the scientists turned their attention to gerbils. These are small pet rodents, similar to guinea pigs or mice, that live across Asia and Africa. Why? Because their hearing range is similar to ours.
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Of course, the scientific community deserves some applause too. But if you were to tell "Joe Soap" about the breakthrough of creating a living cochlea outside the body, I'm sure his reply would be, "Duh… what's a cochlea? Why didn't they just leave it inside the body?"
Before I got my tinnitus, I had never registered what the cochlea actually is either. So we have to enjoy the breakthrough with a kind of quiet excitement, celebrating privately or among fellow sufferers.
In my opinion, the solution will probably come from a combination of research on the cochlea side of things and research on the brain side of things. But I'm not a scientist, unless you count diplomas and degrees and all that.
A new avenue of research has opened, and we will now be able to see what is going on. No more problems with accessing through the round window or intratympanic methods. Just apply the medicaments and observe what happens.
I only hope it will not be too expensive to get more cochleae up and running.