If you've heard deep bass, the roar of a jet engine, or rumbling thunder, you may have felt it in your body. Our cells have a variety of ways to sense mechanical forces, including those that can be ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. Subscribe ...

The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your body is also quietly listening—at the cellular level. Recent research shows ...

When we hear sounds, specialized cells in the cochlear nucleus are the first to process that information, enabling our brains to understand speech, enjoy music and recognize various noises. For ...

Kids, lawn mowers, planes, trains, automobiles—just about everything makes noise. And if two California scientists are right, so, too, do living cells. In recent experiments using the frontier science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave -- including halting fat ...

Salk Institute neuroscientist Sreekanth “Shrek” Chalasani coined the term “sonogenetics” in 2015. Now, a little more than a decade later, he finds himself leading a team awarded $41.3 million to turn ...

The hair cells lining the inner ear are among the most sophisticated structures in the human body: capable of detecting ...