{"id":81663,"date":"2018-08-12T06:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-could-be-a-miracle-cure-for-deafness"},"modified":"2018-08-12T06:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:23:39","slug":"revolutionary-gene-therapy-could-be-a-miracle-cure-for-deafness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-could-be-a-miracle-cure-for-deafness","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary gene therapy could be a miracle cure for deafness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-could-be-a-miracle-cure-for-deafness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed gene therapy that lets deaf mice hear whispers \u2013 and humans could be next.<\/p>\n<p>An extreme form of inherited deafness has been cured in the rodents, which could pave the way for life-changing treatments for humans born with gene defects that affect hearing and balance.<\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists used a laboratory-made virus to deliver corrective DNA into the inner ear.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/02\/07\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-could-be-a-miracle-cure-for-deafness\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/02\/07\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-cou...-deafness\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed gene therapy that lets deaf mice hear whispers \u2013 and humans could be next. An extreme form of inherited deafness has been cured in the rodents, which could pave the way for life-changing treatments for humans born with gene defects that affect hearing and balance. In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists used a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81663","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}