Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks
www.sciencedaily.com
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.

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.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Maybe a distinction between balding men and bald men should be made here.

    Maybe we should be fair and consider women too. Are balding women attractive? I think women who shave their head are often attractive. But that’s not always equal to bald.

    “Curing baldness” was a poor choice of words, since hair loss is usually progressive. It’s not like people are often born bald and wish for a cure.

    If we are just trying to say inner beauty is what matters, then… that’s true. But we are all still human.