{"id":149053,"date":"2022-10-28T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-discover-mechanism-of-hearing-in-near-atomic-detail"},"modified":"2022-10-28T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:23:23","slug":"scientists-discover-mechanism-of-hearing-in-near-atomic-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-discover-mechanism-of-hearing-in-near-atomic-detail","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Mechanism of Hearing in Near-Atomic Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-mechanism-of-hearing-in-near-atomic-detail2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovery made possible by state-of-the-art imaging and more than 60 million worms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first time and in near-atomic detail, scientists at Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) have revealed the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remained unknown,\u201d said senior author Eric Gouaux, Ph.D. He is a senior scientist with the OHSU Vollum Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. \u201cThe molecular machinery that carries out this absolutely amazing process has been unresolved for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery made possible by state-of-the-art imaging and more than 60 million worms. For the first time and in near-atomic detail, scientists at Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) have revealed the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing. \u201cThis is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}