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Stem Cells offer new hope for hearing loss

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Posted on 24 January 2012

Researchers at Keele University in North Staffordshire will be the first in the world to attempt to 'grow' new cells in the ear that become lost and damaged with age.

Age-related hearing loss affects more than nine million people with over half of people aged 60 and above affected to some degree.

The researchers found that in some cases hearing begins to decline when fibrocytes, cells in the inner ear which usually manage levels of potassium and sodium, start to degenerate.  The full article appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Times of India on 28 December 2011.

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