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 ...

In a worldwide first, a one-and-done gene therapy has been approved to treat a form of hereditary deafness. Many of the ...

An experimental gene therapy appears safe and highly effective for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. The study, the largest and longest to ...

A novel gene therapy designed to target a form of inherited deafness has restored hearing function in five children who were treated in both ears. The children also experienced better speech ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a one-time treatment that proved to be life-changing for a small number of children in a ...

Mass Eye and Ear researchers restored hearing in preclinical mouse models with a specific form of inherited deafness called DFNA50 caused by mutations in microRNA, by using a novel in vivo CRISPR ...

The treatment, developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is for a very rare form of deafness. But it represents a medical milestone.

A growing body of evidence in recent years points to a connection between hearing loss and dementia later in life.

New candidate genes which could be responsible for deafness have been identified. Congenital deafness (hearing loss from birth) is common, impacting around one in 1,000 babies born in the UK 1. The ...

Working as a DJ in Liverpool, UK, a decade ago, James Rand would often leave work hearing strange sounds that he knew weren’t real — a high-pitched whine or a low ...

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 ...