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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vishwam Sankaran

Some children born deaf in China finally able to hear after gene therapy, report says

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Chinese scientists have claimed some children in the country who were born entirely deaf are now able to hear after undergoing a breakthrough gene therapy trial.

The deaf children’s inner ears were fitted with an implant of a harmless virus carrying a new genetic code, the journal Science reported.

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