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Dec 24, 2020 The innovative therapy replaces defective genes with healthy genes and may prevent deafness in children born with genetic mutations that cause hearing loss. By TPS Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a gene therapy for deafness, a breakthrough that may help in the treatment of children with hearing loss. The innovative therapy, replacing defective genes with healthy genes, may prevent deafness in children born with genetic mutations that cause hearing loss. The scientists developed a treatment for genetic deafness caused by a specific mutation identified for ...

Tel Aviv U Scientists Develop Gene Therapy for Deaf Children The Media Line Staff 12/23/2020 Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a gene therapy for children born with genetic mutations that cause hearing loss. The treatment, which has been tested on mice, delivers healthy genetic material into the cells of the inner ear, which replaces the genetic defect and enables the cell to continue functioning normally. The scientists were able to prevent the gradual deterioration of hearing in mice with a genetic mutation for deafness. Following the successful study, the scientists are d...

Winners announced: 2020 Nature Research Awards for Mentoring in Science -- Israel Two awards that celebrate outstanding mentorship in science will be presented to three Israeli scientists. The first award for lifetime achievement in mentoring goes to Hanah Margalit, professor in the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The second award for mid-career mentoring achievement goes jointly to Neta Erez, professor at the Sakler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and Tal Pupko, professor at The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University. Each a...

Stanford University study: 12 Tel Aviv University researchers among top 50 in the world A new study from Stanford University identified 12 Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers among the world's top 50 researchers in their fields. 333 TAU faculty members were also ranked among the top 2% of researchers in their respective disciplines based on publications, citations, and impact. 155 of them are included in the top 1%, and 74 in the top 0.5%. The study appeared in PLOS Biology on October 16, 2020. TAU's Vice President for Research, Professor Dan Peer, himself ranked among the top 0.4% in the w...

Study shows COVID-19 infection does not damage the auditory system Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been reports in the professional literature on the possible hearing loss caused by the disease. A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU), in collaboration with the Galilee Medical Center, finds no evidence of damage to the auditory system as a result of COVID-19 infection. The study was led by Professor Karen Avraham of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine. The results were published online in the journal Otology & Neurotology on December 8, 2020. Since the beginning of ...