Regenerating Hearing
October 24, 2023 | Terry Sharrer
“Researchers based at the University of Southern California (USC) have unlocked the pathways through which sensory hearing cells in the ear are created and subsequently silenced, which they believe will help develop new treatments for hearing loss in the future. . . . . They found that an enzyme called ten-eleven translocation (TET) can remove methylation from the DNA and restore the ability of supporting cells in the ear to differentiate into sensory hearing cells. Notably in a mouse model of hearing loss, the gene silencing seen in mice with normal hearing seemed to be partially reversed.” MORE
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