google translation interview on stem cells and cochlear implants in Spain:
cell therapy using techniques of growth factors might be able to get solve a problem with cochlear implants and now is that each electrode stimulates their much larger region than would be encouraged in a healthy ear, which is equivalent to overkill, each electrode is a cannon, when what we would need is a more specific electrical stimulation. The combination of new manufacturing techniques increasingly smaller electrodes with growth factors that allow for growth of nerve cells in the vicinity of the electrodes, possibly facilitating the electrical stimulation was more specific.
source: Entrevista al Dr. Enrique Alejandro Lpez Poveda, fsico y experto en Audiologa: Los jvenes se estn quedando sordos antes por sobreexposicin al ruido
