Controversy Surrounding the Drive to Cure Deafness
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This summer, a group of researchers with affiliations at the MIT, Harvard, the Australian Royal Children’s Hospital, and the…
This summer, a group of researchers with affiliations at the MIT, Harvard, the Australian Royal Children’s Hospital, and the…
As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called CRISPR 2.0.
As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called CRISPR 2.0.
Jun 28 · 11 min read In November 2018, the controversial Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the scientific community, and…
CRISPR has sparked a renaissance in genome editing. Now, next-generation CRISPR technologies let scientists modify the genome…
Using a new genetic engineering technique, known as base editing, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad…
Redacción Jueves, 11 de Junio de 2020 Medicina Cuando Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh era una joven estudiante, uno de sus amigos íntimos…
Reengineering Life is a series from OneZero about the astonishing ways genetic technology is changing humanity and the world…
When Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh was a young undergraduate student, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete…
Recessive hearing loss can be treated with cochlear implants to bypass the problematic area in the ear, but the implants can’t…
Current treatments for hearing loss focus on amplifying sound, rather than targeting the cause of the disease.
When Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh was a young undergraduate student, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete…
When Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh was a young undergraduate student, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete…
Using a new genetic engineering technique, known as base editing, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad…
For the first time, researchers have used base editing to restore partial hearing to mice with a recessive mutation in the gene…
When Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh was a young undergraduate student, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete…
IMAGE: A laser scanning confocal microscope image of the mouse cochlea, the inner ear hearing organ.
When Wei Hsi (Ariel) Yeh was a young undergraduate student, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete…
Key Findings: This is the first example of repairing a recessive gene mutation Repairing a single mutation in the Tmc1 gene…