SciArt: Mouse Cochlea with Hair Bundles

A colorized image of inside the mouse cochlea, with arc-shaped hair cell bundles emerging from the surface of the membrane. Hair cells transform incoming sound vibrations into signals that can be picked up by the auditory nerve and translated in the brain as sound.

Credit: Drs. Inna Belyantseva and Tom Friedman, NIDCD

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