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[Article] Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
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A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into the inner ear using a single injection. All ten patients, ranging from young children to adults, experienced improved hearing, with some showing rapid gains in just one month.

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[–] 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

A single gene therapy shot helped people born deaf start hearing again

I can't help but find this sentence amusing. If born deaf, aren't they hearing for the first time? I know the explanations for this, but it's still sloppy writing, IMHO.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Don’t even get me started on that click bait headline. Of the multitudinous causes of deafness, this only treats a very narrow group of people.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I'm not sure if it would help me for instance. Every male on one side of the family has hearing loss. I seem to have the least loss in my generation with almost none in one ear and the other working okay in low freq but pretty much nothing above 500 Hz. So its definitely genetic but I've never been tested for this gene. Would get a shot in my bad ear if it meant I could hear better though.

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