UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER An international team of researchers has developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear. The discovery was possible by harnessing the natural flow of fluids in the brain and employing a little understood backdoor into the cochlea. When combined to deliver a gene therapy that repairs inner ear hair...
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Success of sensory cell regeneration raises hope for hearing restoration
Jian Zuo, Ph.d., and his colleagues induced supporting cells located in the inner ear of adult mice to take on the appearance of immature hair cells and to begin producing some of the signature proteins of hair cells. In an apparent first, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have used genetic manipulation to regenerate...