Gene therapy

The strength and impact of hearing research in Australia was highlighted at Macquarie University Hearing’s first Hearing Research Symposium. Led...

British toddler Opal Sandy, aged three, who was born profoundly deaf in both ears, can now hear normally on her...

Innovative research, including a trial investigating hydrogen peroxide for otitis media, and a project to grow inner ear tissue from...

Scientists from Tel Aviv University say they have developed an “innovative gene therapy method” to treat impairments in hearing and...

Early signs of hearing improvement have been observed in an Australian toddler who received gene therapy for congenital deafness, the...

Scientists in America have developed a one-time, gene editing treatment that restored hearing and balance in adult mice with a...

A new study has documented “considerable improvement” in all 10 patients who received one injection of gene therapy for congenital...

British and American researchers have identified new ‘candidate’ genes which they say could be responsible for congenital hearing loss. A...

Ten of 12 children with profound genetic hearing loss who received Regeneron Pharmaceutical’s gene therapy showed ‘clinically meaningful, notable improvements...

The inherited or genetic form of Ménière’s disease may be more common than first realised, according to Kolling Institute researchers...