Scientists have successfully restored hearing in children and young adults with congenital deafness using gene therapy ...

This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of ...

One 7-year-old girl who received a traditional cochlear implant in one ear and the gene therapy in another, recovered almost ...

A single shot of gene therapy restored hearing in people born deaf, with most showing improvement within weeks and some ...

Olivia had been showing symptoms since she was just 7 months old — including a belly that remained swollen, hard to the touch and rounder than it should have been. Her pediatrician brushed it off as a ...

The OTOF gene encodes otoferlin, a protein that plays a critical role in hearing. It helps transmit sound signals from the ...