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The transduction of environmental stimuli into a cellular response is known as sensory transduction. It is the first and perhaps most crucial step in sensory processing, and takes place in specialized cells that possess finely tuned transduction mechanisms. The last few years have seen huge advances in the identification of the molecules involved. Here we celebrate the identification of the mammalian sound transduction channel with an online collection of recent papers from our archive.