{"id":241763,"date":"2026-07-29T04:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/were-getting-closer-to-a-breakthrough-on-hearing-loss"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:07:25","slug":"were-getting-closer-to-a-breakthrough-on-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/were-getting-closer-to-a-breakthrough-on-hearing-loss","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re getting closer to a breakthrough on hearing loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-getting-closer-to-a-breakthrough-on-hearing-loss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After decades of dead ends, researchers have discovered a combination of genes that can generate new cells in the inner ear\u2014replacing those that make it possible to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of dead ends, researchers have discovered a combination of genes that can generate new cells in the inner ear\u2014replacing those that make it possible to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241763","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=241763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}