Dank Gentherapie können fünf gehörlose Kinder hören
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2434183-gene-therapy-enables-five-children-who-were-born-deaf-to-hear/
Dank Gentherapie können fünf gehörlose Kinder hören
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2434183-gene-therapy-enables-five-children-who-were-born-deaf-to-hear/
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I feel so bad for those children. They can hear all the loud and stupid bullshit surrounding them.
This Gene guy must be a great therapist
Are US right wing nuts protesting against this kind of thing?
Now make me taller
I understand there might be some in the deaf community who would be opposed to this as deaf culture is a real thing that they try to preserve.
I discussed this once with my father in law who served in the Marines. He reminded me that it’s important to remember that you’ll likely hear danger way before you can see it or smell it. He then proceeded to honk out the most ungodly, wettest fart I had ever heard.
gene engineering has been a topic I was interested in for a few years already, this basically has the potential to engineer humans and eliminate all diseases i can’t believe this isn’t getting the attention it deserves
This is a wonderful accomplishment that I wish I understood more. Could similar treatment ever be possible to help something like depression?
This seems like it’s a pretty specific case. 8-10% of cases of congenital deafness. Since it’s a replacement of loss of function it probably doesn’t do anything for people who have acquired hearing loss from viral or mechanical damage, which I believe makes up the majority of hearing loss.
Still super exciting and interesting and life changing for thousands of people if it pans out. Just something I always notice when I see deafness research as I have acquired deafness. Trying to save a click if anybody else like me had the same thought.
Not in science fiction, not 50 years from now. Today. (Good version)
What?
This is how Gattaca started
How fucking amazing! I wish them the best music for the rest of their lives!
My parents were family friends with a deaf couple. The husband was born deaf, the wife just needed hearing aids. Dude beat his wife because she wouldn’t use the TTY machine and instead used a regular phone.