{"id":181353,"date":"2024-01-25T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breakthrough-deaf-boy-can-hear-after-first-gene-treatment-in-us"},"modified":"2024-01-25T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:23:19","slug":"breakthrough-deaf-boy-can-hear-after-first-gene-treatment-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breakthrough-deaf-boy-can-hear-after-first-gene-treatment-in-us","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: Deaf Boy Can Hear After First Gene Treatment in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-deaf-boy-can-hear-after-first-gene-treatment-in-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His father\u2019s voice, the sounds of passing cars and scissors clipping his hair: An 11-year-old boy is hearing for the first time in his life after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) which carried out the treatment \u2013 a first in the United States \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/news\/children-s-hospital-philadelphia-performs-first-us-gene-therapy-procedure-treat-genetic-hearing\">said in a statement Tuesday<\/a> the milestone represents hope for patients around the world with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations.<\/p>\n<p>Aissam Dam was born \u201cprofoundly deaf\u201d because of a highly rare abnormality in a single gene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His father\u2019s voice, the sounds of passing cars and scissors clipping his hair: An 11-year-old boy is hearing for the first time in his life after receiving a breakthrough gene therapy. The Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) which carried out the treatment \u2013 a first in the United States \u2013 said in a statement Tuesday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}