Pinpointing the exact genetic cause of inherited deafness has always involved sequencing one gene at a time, a process that can take up to a year and cost roughly $1,000 per gene. It would cost around $75,000 to test all known deafness-causing genes using this approach.

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The University of Iowa Hearing Laboratory has recently been featured on the Big Ten Network for their work on the development of Otoscope.

Amy Lee, PhD, discusses her lab's research on electric currents in nerve cells, which play a part in severe disorders such as deafness, blindness, epilepsy, and migraine.