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Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)

By Stefan Heller - Stanford
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  • Fall 2008
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

Stefan Heller is trying to create inexpensive ear drops that can cure deafness. In this short talk, Heller describes how his team of researchers at Stanford University is transplanting stem cells into the ear to "regenerate" damaged hearing cells.

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond)
  2. Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)
  3. Brain to Computer Interfaces
  4. Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth)
  5. Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)
  6. Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)
  7. Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)