Understanding Hearing, Molecule By Molecule

Science Daily ^ | 7/13/2008

[Soliton]

Berkeley Lab scientists have for the first time pieced together the three-dimensional structure of one of nature’s most exquisite pieces of machinery, a gossamer-like filament of proteins in the inner ear that enables the sense of hearing and balance.

[Soliton]

Thank you scientists for making the world a better place!

[count-your-change]

“It’s one of the most beautifully deigned systems in the body,” says Manfred Auer of Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division. “But how it really works remains a mystery.”
“design”? OOHHH HORRORS! SOMEONE TRYING TO SNEAK ID IN!
Get the children out of the room before they start asking embarrassing questions!

[savedbygrace]

Thank you for posting this. Fascinating.

[bajabaja]

ping list worthy?

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Soliton]

“design”? OOHHH HORRORS! SOMEONE TRYING TO SNEAK ID IN! Get the children out of the room before they start asking embarrassing questions! I teed it up for you. Close your eyes and hammer it!

[count-your-change]

Naw, it’s an interesting article and I’m glad it was posted but no need to deny me a tiny bit o’ fun.

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, bookmarked for later.

Full Disclosure: What's that you say, sonny? /crotchety old man>

Cheers!