Prof Dave Moore, the director of the Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham, said the the workings of the ear were incredibly precise and constantly vibrating meaning rebuilding hairs was like trying to demolish and then rebuild a 15-storey building in the middle of a city, without damaging any of the surrounding buildings all in the middle of an earthquake.
Dr Ralph Holme, biomedical research manager at the RNID, the charity for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, welcomed the research.
On September 5, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on stem cell research, to determine more details about where the stem cell lines come from.
Professor Mark Haggard, at the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing in Nottingham, said the Pittsburgh study confirms the findings of research currently underway there.
But in conducting their research they also kept hearing about how venues had extra rooms that they wanted to rent out for events.
Shadow education minister Karen Buck said the research confirmed what we have been hearing from schools and colleges across the country.
It was also set out in the hearing how Mr Moloney has claimed that his research colleague's interviews with Price contain nothing relevant to the Jean McConville murder investigation.
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Recent research suggests that if left untreated, hearing loss might contribute to an acceleration in cognitive decline - relating to our understanding, reasoning and perception skills - as we age.
Dr Eric Karran, from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said the exact connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline was still unknown.
The Agence France-Presse reports on a Japanese research team that is developing a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings.
Almost all the research done into animal signalling has been on sight, hearing and smell, because these are senses that people possess.
The 11- year-old company, which was founded by a research scientist, spent years constructing a computational model of hearing, then decided to apply its technology to voice enhancement.
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It is a mistake, however, to reject a research conclusion on grounds of a supposed flaw without first hearing out the researchers on the details and underlying rationale of their methodology.
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Stress has also been linked in previous research with premature births and birth defects including visual, hearing and intellectual impairments, as well as complications in the respiratory, gastrointestinal and renal systems.
The Science and Technology Committee meets the preferred candidate to take over the Medical Research Council, Donald Brydon, for a pre-appointment hearing.
Some preliminary data suggest that people can do damage to their hearing with portable audio devices such as iPods, experts said, but more research needs to be done.
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Thomas Hearing, a student who worked on a Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site (WHS) research project, has been named UK Young Scientist of the Year 2010.
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