Studies: Gene Treatment Lets Children Deaf at Birth Hear — VOA Learning English
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Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again.
Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims to change a few of a patient’s genes to cure a genetic disease.
A small study recently published in The Lancet reported improvements in the hearing in five of six children who were treated in China.
Around the same time, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the U.S. eastern state of Pennsylvania announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated there. And earlier, Chinese researchers published a study showing similar improvements in two other children.
The experimental methods, or therapies, target only one rare condition. But…
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