Katie Breneman, University of Utah (IMAGE)
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University of Utah bioengineering doctoral student Katie Breneman and a large laboratory model of the cochlea, the part of the inner ear where incoming sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses and sent to the brain. Breneman and colleagues conducted a study suggesting that a mechanism known as "flexoelectricity" explains how faint sounds are amplified mechanically by the movements of bundles of hair-like tubes atop "hair cells" in the cochlea.
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Matt Crawley, University of Utah College of Engineering.
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