May 20, 2019
Saving Beethoven
A CRISPR technique holds promise for preventing inherited hearing loss and other genetic diseases. Learn more... https://hms.harvard.edu/news/saving-beethoven
Using a novel gene-editing approach, HMS scientists salvaged the hearing of mice with a genetic mutation that causes hearing loss—the same mutation that causes progressive hearing loss in humans. Co-senior study authors David Corey (HMS) and Jeffrey Holt (HMS/Boston Children’s) are quoted.
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