Sentences with phrase «new cochlear»

Lustig points out that the new cochlear implant would require a more complex surgery than existing implants do.

After exposing supporting cells — cells that can create new cochlear hairs — to a specialized drug mixture, the team saw significant new hair cell growth.

Not exact matches

The iPhone capabilities will come in Cochlear's newest sound processor that sits outside the ear, the Nucleus 7, expected to be released in September.

This supports the optoacoustic stimulation theory, they say, and they aim use this refinement of the optoacoustic effect to develop a new generation of cochlear implants.

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), have developed a new, low - power signal - processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.

«The idea with this design is that you could use a phone, with an adaptor, to charge the cochlear implant, so you don't have to be plugged in,» says Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and corresponding author on the new paper.

Existing cochlear implants use an external microphone to gather sound, but the new implant would instead use the natural microphone of the middle ear, which is almost always intact in cochlear - implant patients.

Previous research by Burger and Stefan Oline — a former Ph.D. candidate at Lehigh, now a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Medical School — demonstrated for the first time that synaptic inputs — the messages being sent between cells — are distinct across frequencies and that these different impulse patterns are «mapped» onto the cells of the cochlear nucleus.

When he's not prepping for the baby or hunting their dinner, Lee is ever - tinkering with new tech, trying to create a cochlear implant for his hearing impaired daughter (Simmonds) that actually works.

Many deaf people do not want to hear, because they hear already, just not the way that you and I do (there's a huge movement within deaf culture that rallies against cochlear implants and new technologies that could restore hearing to deaf people.

Your books now come with music — We have our new revolutionary Cochlear Sound that's so accurate only dogs can hear all of it.