title: Sensory transduction: the 'swarm intelligence' of auditory hair bundles.
abstract: In vertebrate hair cells, the hair bundle is responsible for the conversion of mechanical vibrations into electrical signals. In a combined experimental and computational tour de force, a group of researchers now presents a quantitative model that explains how the bundle's specific microarchitecture gives rise to its exquisite mechanosensory properties.
authors.affiliation: University College London, Ear Institute, 332 Gray's Inn Rd, London WC1X 8EE, UK. joerg.albert@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Albert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006198:Hair Cells, Auditory / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D040542:Mechanotransduction, Cellular / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological