The inner ear plays an important role in hearing and balance. Read about its location, how it works, what conditions can affect it, and treatments involved.

The novel compound AC102 almost completely reversed tinnitus in a preclinical model after a single dose. At the same time, ...

Have you ever wondered how the delicate structures hidden deep within your ears first came to be? It’s astonishing to think ...

Inner ear infections can cause certain parts of the inner ear to become inflamed. They can affect a person’s hearing and balance. They often occur when a person has a cold or flu, or if a middle ...

The inner ear is the most complex part of the ear. Its spiral, canal, and chamber structures help process sound, hold fluids, and help regulate your sense of balance.

Two studies comparing the inner ears of dinosaurs with those of living creatures have revealed intriguing details about dinosaur behavior during the 165 million years they dominated the Earth.

Strikingly, null mutants of Foxi3 no inner ear at all and completely fail to initiate the inner ear program from its earliest stages. We’ve shown that the ectoderm in these mice continues to receive ...

The team examined the inner ears of fossilized and modern species, and estimated that warm-bloodedness, or endothermy, emerged in the group around 233 million years ago during the Late Triassic ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes.