Uni Göttingen<p>Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular “springs” that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have been unable to find these.</p><p>Now, a team at Göttingen's Excellence Cluster Multiscale Bioimaging <a href="https://academiccloud.social/tags/MBExC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MBExC</span></a> has discovered just such a spring for the first time: <a href="https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7736" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html</span><span class="invisible">?id=7736</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://academiccloud.social/tags/NatureNeuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatureNeuroscience</span></a>: <a href="https://doi.org/n86s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/n86s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://academiccloud.social/tags/MakingSenseOfSenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakingSenseOfSenses</span></a> <a href="https://academiccloud.social/tags/Hearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hearing</span></a></p>