News tagged with bundle
Power steering for your hearing: Ears have tiny 'flexoelectric' motors to amplify sound
Utah and Texas researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop "hair cells" in the ear: when the tubes dance back and forth, they act as "flexoelectric motors" ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale
MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Cell transplants may cure deafness
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 22, 2009 |
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