Hair Cell Transduction Channel (image)

Rockefeller University Press

Caption

A study in The Journal of General Physiology provides new evidence about the molecular makeup of the hair cell transduction channel, which plays a critical role in our ability to hear (magnified region of a hair cell shown here).

Credit

Kim et al., 2013

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