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A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into the inner ear using a single injection. All ten patients, ranging from young children to adults, experienced improved hearing, with some showing rapid gains in just one month.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 38 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Great news. I wish they could fix too tinnitus.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I think that for certain aspects of it we eventually will be able to. Either that or smart hearing aides will get so good that they will have nice software for decreasing the experience of tinnitus without overpowering your ability to hear other things normally. Technology can and definitely should do that.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

https://www.lenire.com/

I'm probably gonna give this a go in a few years

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

ENTs can selectively deafen you to try to mask the tinnitus....