[HN Gopher] Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inher...
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Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
Author : keploy
Score : 37 points
Date : 2024-06-08 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cosmosmagazine.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (cosmosmagazine.com)
| gota wrote:
| This stuff seems miraculous.
|
| > "Through minimally invasive surgery, Shu injected adeno-
| associated virus (AAV) engineered to carry and deliver
| functioning copies of the human OTOF transgene, into the
| children's inner ears. "
|
| Can't read that and not get curious, excited, for the future.
|
| Congratulations to all those involved in the research and thanks
| to all who contributed to it - including all taxpayers if public
| funding was given, even indirectly (i.e. in the schooling and
| education, grants, for said researchers)
| Something1234 wrote:
| Wait until they have kids. The deafness gene will be passed
| along. Soon enough we'll be like the cars with the hardware
| without the software or the locked features.
| david38 wrote:
| We have this already. As a species we are susceptible to many
| diseases which we have to take vaccines for, every generation.
| bitcurious wrote:
| Fortunately won't be a big issue, as:
|
| >OTOF-related deafness is inherited in an autosomal recessive
| manner. If both parents are known to be carriers, each sib of
| an individual with OTOF-related deafness has at conception a
| 25% chance of being deaf, a 50% chance of having normal hearing
| and being a carrier, and a 25% chance of having normal hearing
| and not being a carrier.
|
| source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1251/
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