The otolith organs (literally, 'ear rocks') are composed of a matrix of loosely anchored calcium carbonate crystals in the inner ear that is coupled to vestibular hair cells. Neural signals ...

An illustration and microscopic images show the relationship between motion-sensing vestibular hair cells (blue) of the innermost ear and the cup-shaped “calyx” (green) structures of adjoining ...

but its ability to induce hair cells declines rapidly after birth. We have collaborated with Huda Zoghbi’s lab at Baylor to identify direct targets of Atoh1 in cochlear and vestibular hair cells, and ...