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Salk Institute

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From left: Short, intermediate and long hair stereocilia (green) of the inner ear that transduce sound in mice treated with increasing levels of EPS8 (magenta). The addition of more EPS8 results in stereocilia elongation.

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Salk Institute/Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Core

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