Hair Cell Bundles (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Hair Cell Bundles

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To pick up these sounds, tiny hair-like filaments in the inner ear must be packed into precisely arranged bundles, all facing the same direction (top). Researchers identified a protein essential to this process.

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Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University

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