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

43 points by bilsbie ago | 5 comments

achow |next [-]

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...

tommieb |next |previous [-]

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

sgbeal |previous [-]

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

jsilence |root |parent [-]

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

sgbeal |root |parent [-]

> So likely not helping with tinnitus.

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