PRESS RELEASEDISCOVERED A NEW PROTEIN INVOLVED IN DEAFNESSResearchers of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), discover that the transmembrane protein Tmie is essential for normal hearing and balance.The work, will be published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS). It presents for the first time the study of a protein involved in the hair cells function whose loss causes problems on both hearing and balance.