Deaf baby can hear after 'mind-blowing' gene therapy treatment
Seven months after her treatment, the baby girl can now respond to her parents' voices without the aid of a cochlear implant.
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Seven months after her treatment, the baby girl can now respond to her parents' voices without the aid of a cochlear implant.
A child with profound genetic hearing loss was dosed with the investigational otoferlin gene therapy (DB-OTO), becoming the first patient dosed in a phase 1/2 trial evaluating the treatment, and experienced improved auditory response at week 6 with no concerning safety signals.
A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy that can cure auditory neuropathy, a type of deafness that stops nerve impulses from making it from the inner ear to the brain. The trial, led by Manohar Bance, an ear surgeon at Cambridge University, will involve 18 children under the […]
Researchers hope to transform treatment of auditory neuropathy.