by University of Pittsburgh Credit: CC0 Public DomainAnyone who has ever been to a loud concert knows the feeling of ringing ears. Some people experience temporary or even permanent hearing loss or drastic changes in their perception of sound after the loud noises stop. Thanos Tzounopoulos, Ph.D., director of the Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center at the...
by Isabelle Dubach, University of New South Wales A/Prof. Kate Quinlan and Prof. Merlin Crossley. Credit: Richard Freeman / UNSW Sydney Asymptomatic sickle cell disease patients actually lack a tiny part of the genome, UNSW scientists have shown. UNSW researchers have used CRISPR gene editing—a type of “molecular scissors”—to understand how deletions in one area...
