Looks like trials have already started!
http://www.newscientist.com/article...-to-restore-natural-hearing.html#.U1rWlvldV8F
I posted a few months ago of potential delivery methods to the Coclear and seems like Gene therapy is being used!
Will be watching closely.
There's a LOT of duplicate science done, even for something like this. Scientists will sometimes "verify" each other's work, change a couple things, pump out a new paper, submit it to a journal, and use it to get more funding. It's the way of the road. It's a 'safe' move to research things that are already well known. Harder to fail that wayThis study comes off sounding like they're twenty years into the past with their research. We already know that all other classes of vertebrates other than mammals can regenerate hair cells. We already identified the gene that has turned this ability off. We already have different therapies in the pipeline to try and regenerate these sells currently going by other companies.
Why are these guys special?
Yeah, can anyone provide an answer to this? The article explains why those with genetic deafness/deafness from birth would not benefit, but not why only 1-2% of all people with hearing loss would benefit. That number seems... Disappointingly low.This looks really interesting. Why would they suspect only a 1-2% success rate though?![]()
This is all speculative... Mostly media call everything a "cure" in the headlines and at the end of the article "this could lead to a cure one day, researchers hope"Yeah, can anyone provide an answer to this? The article explains why those with genetic deafness/deafness from birth would not benefit, but not why only 1-2% of all people with hearing loss would benefit. That number seems... Disappointingly low.