The gene therapy was shown to allow hearing in Aissam Dam, a boy from Morocco with a rare form of congenital deafness.
  • phdepressed
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    10 months ago

    Yes, daughter cells of corrected ones will also have the correction applied.

    That said the inner and outer hair cells (the ear cells that have “hair” strands that respond to frequency and amplitude)involved in this have extremely low if any turnover. Hair cell loss is involved in noise-related hearing loss.