{"id":217593,"date":"2025-07-11T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/breakthrough-gene-therapy-jab-reverses-hearing-loss-in-weeks"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:03:47","slug":"breakthrough-gene-therapy-jab-reverses-hearing-loss-in-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/breakthrough-gene-therapy-jab-reverses-hearing-loss-in-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough gene therapy jab reverses hearing loss in weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-gene-therapy-jab-reverses-hearing-loss-in-weeks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers also found that the treatment was safe and well-tolerated. Participants did not report any serious adverse reactions in the follow-up period of 6\u201312 months.<\/p>\n<p>The most common reaction was a reduction in the number of the immune system\u2019s neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOTOF is just the beginning,\u201d Dr Duan said, adding that researchers were working on other common genes behind deafness such as GJB2 and TMC1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers also found that the treatment was safe and well-tolerated. Participants did not report any serious adverse reactions in the follow-up period of 6\u201312 months. The most common reaction was a reduction in the number of the immune system\u2019s neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. \u201cOTOF is just the beginning,\u201d Dr Duan said, adding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217593","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}