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PARIS A gene therapy that has allowed several children born deaf to hear for the first time is being hailed as a “game changer” that raises hopes of the first new treatment for hereditary deafness in decades.Several medical teams around the world are trialling the procedure, which focuses on a rare genetic mutation that affects only a small number of the 26 million people
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Chinese and US researchers reported that five of six children treated at the Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, had gained hearing after receiving a version of a human gene to make up for the defective gene responsible for their deafness