U. S researchers reported on Thursday that stem cells can be coaxed into becoming the hair cells deep inside the areas that are destroyed in hearing loss. The team reported in the journal Cell, the experiment done with tow types of stem cells while they so far succeeded only in mice, they are hopeful or transforming human cells. The National Institute on Deafness and Other communication Disorders estimates that 15 percent of Americans between
20 and 69, or 26 million people , have high frequency loss caused by noise.

Oshima said in a telephonic interview “What we are thinking is to get human iPS cells from hearing loss patients and just try to re-make the disorder in the Petri dish; There are still so many hurdles to overcome”. While the researchers say the next step is to perform a similar study in humans to see if the same benefits are seen. David Corey, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard University in Massachusetts who was not involved in the study said “This gives us real hope that there might be some kind of therapy for regenerating hair cells, It could take a decade or more, but it's a possibility”.

The researchers who published their study in the journal Cell, the ear is a very complex part of our bodies, and there are multiple forms of hearing loss that we are at risk of developing. It may be noted that research team used the different types of stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The next step is to try the experiment using human cells and the experiment while they have so far succeeded only in mice , they are hopeful of transforming human cells.