On October 25, 2025, scientists revealed a groundbreaking discovery of a hidden gene mutation that causes deafness, shedding ...

Dr. Uri Manor feels like much of his early life was blessed by fate. Born with genetic hearing loss that enables him to hear only about 10% of what others might, Manor was diagnosed at age 2, when he ...

It turns out that to hear a person yapping, you need a protein called Yap. Working as part of what is known as the Yap/Tead complex, this important protein sends signals to the hearing organ to attain ...

In a breakthrough that could change how we treat certain types of deafness, researchers at the University of Chicago have uncovered a hidden genetic cause of hearing loss — and even found potential ...