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One Injection Reversed Deafness: Inside the Gene Therapy Breakthrough
A single shot into the inner ear restored hearing in all 10 patients born deaf. One seven-year-old was having conversations within four months.
Casey Cooper·

A single shot into the inner ear restored hearing in all 10 patients born deaf. One seven-year-old was having conversations within four months.

A team at Great Ormond Street Hospital stripped a donor organ of its cells, rebuilt it with the recipient's own, and watched it restore normal swallowing without immunosuppression.