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.

It is now well known that human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, are connected to cervical and anal cancers. What may not be as well known is that HPV is a risk factor for about 26% of head and neck cancers not caused by tobacco or alcohol.

University of Iowa scientists have discovered a new role for a protein that is mutated in Usher syndrome, one of the most common forms of deaf-blindness in humans. The findings, which were published Aug. 8 in Nature Neuroscience, may help explain why this mutation causes the most severe form of the condition.