Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular “springs” that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have been unable to find these.

Now, a team at Göttingen's Excellence Cluster Multiscale Bioimaging #MBExC has discovered just such a spring for the first time: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7736

#NatureNeuroscience: https://doi.org/n86s #MakingSenseOfSenses #Hearing