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Gene-therapy trial will attempt to restore hearing in deaf mice

In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team co-led by Jeffrey Holt, PhD, of the Department of Otolaryngology at Children’s Hospital Boston demonstrated that two related proteins, TMC1 and TMC2, are essential for normal hearing – paving the way for a test of gene therapy to reverse a type of genetic deafness. 

“This is the first time anything like this has been done,” says Holt.

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