The FDA approved Regeneron's gene therapy, Otarmeni, on April 23, the first-ever treatment to restore hearing in children born deaf due to a genetic mutation. It doesn't mask the problem; it fixes the instruction.

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Your brain is a sensory melting pot, but the mix isn't always harmonious. In rats, for example, sound doesn't just accompany vision; it can block or compress what the rat sees. This finding from Italy's SISSA institute, published in PLOS Computational ...

Childhood cancer survival rates have soared. A new St. Jude study reveals what happens after treatment ends. Medicine hasn't solved it yet.

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Radiation therapy alone — no chemotherapy required — causes severe hearing loss ...

Scientists just found a hidden reason inner ear cells die. A common antibiotic class is directly implicated. And the mechanism has been hiding in plain sight for years.

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Aminoglycoside antibiotics — prescribed for drug-resistant ...

Scientists mapped how Kemp's ridley sea turtles hear underwater. The turtles cannot vocalize pain from the engine noise of ships. Now we know why they might want to.

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Kemp's ridley sea turtles hear best at 300 Hz. That ...

Millions lose hearing to noise damage and aging. Now, biologists at UC San Diego's Department of Cell and Developmental Biology have built an AI system that renders 3D views of the tiny hair cells responsible for hearing. It works 50 times ...

Forget what you knew about when mammals developed modern hearing. New research pushes that milestone back 50 million years, to a creature that lived 250 million years ago, just as the age of dinosaurs began.

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Researchers identified 211 distinct genetic mutations linked to childhood deafness in Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, and Jordan, with over a third being new. The breakthrough ends decades of diagnostic uncertainty for families wondering if their deaf ...

The University of Chicago has uncovered a genetic cause behind a rare congenital hearing loss and two existing treatments. This breakthrough could change our approach to rare deafness and age-related hearing loss.

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Imagine a world where being born with a genetic hearing disorder doesn't mean a lifetime of silence. That future is closer than you think. Scientists from Tel Aviv University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully kept a mammalian cochlea—the delicate, spiral-shaped organ responsible for hearing—alive and functioning outside of the body. This significant achievement, reached shortly before the passing of renowned ...