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A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy intended to cure auditory neuropathy, a type of deafness that stops nerve impulses from making it from the inner ear to the brain.
But without it, these signals are never passed on to the brain, resulting in hearing loss. Roughly 20,000 people in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy are affected by this specific mutation, according to a It's not the only gene therapy solution for the varying causes of hearing loss being investigated. Researchers at Harvard University developed a drug-like cocktail thatin a proof-of-concept study earlier this year to heal deafness in mice with a defective gene impacting their hearing abilities.
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