{"id":222125,"date":"2025-09-19T03:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/a-shot-of-sound-gene-therapy-reverses-deafness-in-just-weeks"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:03:30","slug":"a-shot-of-sound-gene-therapy-reverses-deafness-in-just-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/a-shot-of-sound-gene-therapy-reverses-deafness-in-just-weeks","title":{"rendered":"A Shot of Sound: Gene Therapy Reverses Deafness in Just Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-shot-of-sound-gene-therapy-reverses-deafness-in-just-weeks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene therapy has successfully reversed deafness in both children and adults by delivering a healthy gene directly to the ear. One injection led to rapid hearing recovery, especially in younger patients, with no serious side effects.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A single shot of gene therapy restored hearing in people born deaf, with most showing improvement within weeks and some regaining full function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene therapy has successfully reversed deafness in both children and adults by delivering a healthy gene directly to the ear. One injection led to rapid hearing recovery, especially in younger patients, with no serious side effects. A single shot of gene therapy restored hearing in people born deaf, with most showing improvement within weeks and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222125","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}