The Brain Prize 2012: opening the doors of auditory perception.
The Brain Prize 2012 was awarded to two remarkable scientists, Christine Petit and Karen Steel, who have exploited the use of human and mouse genetics to revolutionize our understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of hearing and deafness, opening up what was previously an inaccessible, but highly important, end organ of the brain. The present article highlights their seminal contributions.
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. g.p.richardson@sussex.ac.uk
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