Wednesday, June 3, 2020

A promise to restore hearing

For the first time, researchers have used base editing to restore partial hearing to mice with a recessive mutation in the gene TMC1 that causes complete deafness, the first successful example of genome editing to fix a recessive disease-causing mutation.

from Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200603144338.htm

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