Children born profoundly deaf because of mutations in the OTOF gene are hearing speech, music, and everyday sounds after a single gene therapy infusion, and the gains are holding steady for up to 2.5 ...

A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was 11 months old at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Opal Sandy from Oxfordshire is the first ...

Ten people who were born deaf heard sound for the first time after receiving a single injection of gene therapy into the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Eighteen-month-old Opal Sandy was born completely deaf due to a rare ...

Every day, 33 babies are born in the United States with permanent hearing loss. If not identified early, it’s almost impossible for many of them to acquire the fundamental language, social and ...

An increasing number of deaf and hard-of-hearing kids in the U.S. are receiving cochlear implants – electrical conductors surgically inserted into the inner ear to stimulate the nerve responsible for ...