Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no ...
Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty ...
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Researchers discover that hearing-essential proteins (TMC1/TMC2) also regulate cell membranes, and their malfunction is a primary cause of permanent hearing loss.