Gene therapy helps restore hearing in children with hereditary deafness
Five children in China with with hereditary deafness have had their hearing restored after undergoing pioneering gene therapy.
The patients, aged between one and six, had a specific form of deafness called DFNB9, which is caused by mutations in a gene known as OTOF and is characterised by severe-to-complete hearing loss.
The researchers said five of the six children treated demonstrated hearing recovery and improvements in speech recognition within six months.
After the gene therapy,
