Scientists claim gene therapy has the potential to restore hearing in mice, offering hope for humans as well.

Robotic punks are taught to express their love of music by dancing.

BBC News website meets Lucy Tinker who talks about audiology.

A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.

Hearing loss in the elderly is linked to flaws in a specific gene, in a study by Belgian researchers.

A brain test to detect which frequencies babies cannot hear could help design individualised hearing aids for them.

While veteran rocker Pete Townshend blames his hearing loss on a lifetime spent using headphones, experts say today's iPod Generation is storing up trouble for the future by listening to music at high volumes. Is this a crisis in the making?

Scientists are developing a cochlear implant which could allow deaf people to hear music.

Scientists hope it may be possible to treat age-related hearing loss by stimulating the growth of new hair cells in the inner ear.

Scientists pinpoint a protein they believe holds the key to hearing, and maybe new treatments for deafness.

A half-millimetre wide optical fibre could be used to send back images of the inner ear to doctors.

All children who receive cochlear implants to restore their hearing should be vaccinated against meningitis, doctors warn.

Single Sided Deafness (SSD) is the complete hearing loss in one ear.

Scientists have successfully grown auditory hair cells in the lab - raising the prospect of new treatments for deafness and hearing loss.

A Cambridgeshire engineer develops a cochlear implant to improve music perception for deaf people.

The hearing of new-born babies is detected even while they are sleeping.

Scientists say they have discovered a gene defect that causes an unusual type of hearing loss.

Doctors have perfected a quick and relatively straightforward way to restore hearing to profoundly deaf children.

A £1m centre to teach deaf children how to hear and speak after implant operations opens in Nottingham.

Some cases of tinnitus - a persistent ringing in the ears - could be felt because of a breakdown in the controls linking hearing to the other senses.