Gene therapy shows promise for an inherited form of deafness
Scientists report that gene therapy restored at least some hearing and speech for five out of six children with a rare form of genetic deafness.
For the first time, gene therapy is showing promise for treating inherited deafness, researchers reported Wednesday.
A study involving six children born with a genetic defect that left them profoundly deaf found that an experimental form of gene therapy restored at least some hearing for five of them.
"We are absolutely thrilled," says , an associate scientist at Mass Eye and Ear's Eaton-Peabody Laboratories and associate professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Chen led the research, in the journal
