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A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear (sciencedaily.com)
achow 3 days ago [-]
It is from July last year. There seems to be no more update after that in this Science daily article.

Source: https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-pat...

sgbeal 3 days ago [-]
Holy moley. Let's hope this leads to treatments for Tinnitus.
jsilence 3 days ago [-]
It works on people with e specific birth gene defect named OTOH. So likely not helping with tinnitus.
sgbeal 2 days ago [-]
> So likely not helping with tinnitus.

Not directly, no, but here's hoping that it leads to something in the adjacent field of Tinnitus.

tvshtr 1 days ago [-]
From what I've seen recently tinnitus research is moving into completely different direction as it seems related to sleep.
GenericDev 2 days ago [-]
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tommieb 2 days ago [-]
Does that cover those who were impacted by Rubella / German measles before birth?
gus_massa 15 hours ago [-]
It looks like a very specific fix for a genetic variant, not generic solution.

PS: Don't get most pregnant women get the vaccine? Here in Argentina it's mandatory like 2 doses, like at 1 year old and 5 years old, usually one extra dose when there is a (normal) measles outbreak, and another when a woman get pregnant (perhaps at 2 or 3 months).

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