The collaborative spirit of our Hearing Restoration Project consortium is especially evident as we work together to complete a publication describing our analysis of hair cell gene expression.
Harnessing the Power of Tinnitus Patients’ Experiences
I learned that little was known about the mechanisms causing tinnitus, and treatments were hard to test because they seemed to have very different effects on different people. Researchers call this heterogeneity, and it simply means that your tinnitus is likely different from mine.
Advancing Discoveries via Biologist-Friendly Access to Multi-Omic Data
Data processing that analyzes a large amount of data about individual cells and measures them through multiple “omics” (such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, and metabolomics) have advanced our understanding of biological sciences and medicine in an unprecedented way.
A Multimodal Cell Census and Atlas of the Mammalian Primary Motor Cortex
In a paper published in Nature in October 2021, scientists including Ronna Hertzano, M.D., Ph.D., and Seth Ament, Ph.D., both at the University of Maryland and both members of Hearing Health Foundation’s Hearing Restoration Project, present the cell census and atlas of cell types in the primary motor cortex of the mouse, marmoset, and human.
Data Made Visual
Over the past several years, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF)’s Hearing Restoration Project (HRP) has generated a significant amount of data. Part of the challenge for HRP consortium members, as for many life scientists, comes not only from the amount of data they need to analyze but also the need to examine multi-omic datasets.