In profoundly deaf mice, gene therapy has partially restored hearing and balance, states study published in Nature Medicine. The research, still in its early stages and restricted to lab animals, may open up new avenues for tackling Usher syndrome, an inherited form of human deafness that usually goes hand in hand with blindness. Researchers led by Michelle Hastings at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Illinois, ...Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Gene Therapy Boosts Hope for the Deaf
In profoundly deaf mice, gene therapy has partially restored hearing and balance, states study published in Nature Medicine. The research, still in its early stages and restricted to lab animals, may open up new avenues for tackling Usher syndrome, an inherited form of human deafness that usually goes hand in hand with blindness. Researchers led by Michelle Hastings at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Illinois, ...
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