Gene therapy for hearing loss: Potential and limitations
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Regenerating sensory hair cells could form the basis for treating age- or trauma-related hearing loss. One way to do this could be with gene therapy that drives new sensory hair cells to grow. Researchers have shown that introducing a gene called Atoh1 into the cochleae of young mice can induce the formation of extra sensory hair cells.
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