The gene behind congenital deafness, and how a single shot is fixing it
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A girl born without the ability to hear was having everyday conversations with her mother four months after a single injection into her inner ear. She was seven years old. The treatment did not give her a hearing aid or implant. It gave her a gene she had been missing. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, working with hospitals across China, published results in Nature Medicine last month from a trial involving ten patients with congenital deafness caused by
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