A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear

achow 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It is from July last year. There seems to be no more update after that in this Science daily article.

sgbeal 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Holy moley. Let's hope this leads to treatments for Tinnitus.

jsilence 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It works on people with e specific birth gene defect named OTOH. So likely not helping with tinnitus.

> 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 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From what I've seen recently tinnitus research is moving into completely different direction as it seems related to sleep.

GenericDev a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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tommieb 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Does that cover those who were impacted by Rubella / German measles before birth?