Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a "groundbreaking" gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston and the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University.
Ground-breaking gene therapy, given as an infusion into the ear, works by replacing faulty DNA which causes a type of inherited deafness known as DFNB9.
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