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Experience with Hearing Loss
I had my first back fusion surgery in Dec 2006. When I woke up at 3-4am I wanted to make a phone call. I put the receiver to my right ear and no dial tone. I thought the phone wasn't working.
Yasheng Yuan, Ph.D., Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, aims to develop a cell-based therapy to replace auditory neurons. We have shown that neural progenitor cells derived from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells transplanted into the auditory nerve send out fibers that grow to hair cells and to the cochlear nucleus.Read more about his research.