Cure For Deafness Now Within Reach: By Roger Highfield.

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=... sent by OrpRam since 4 hours 2 minutes Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests. The transfer of a specific gene is shown today by a milestone experiment to trigger the growth of new hair cells in the inner ear - the usually irreplaceable sensory cells that pick up... [read full story]