Researchers Discover Proteins That Could Soon Restore Damaged Hearing and Irreversible Deafness

Aug 5, 2019

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine may have just found the key to restoring hearing in people with irreversible deafness.

Using genetic tools in mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have identified a pair of proteins that precisely control when sound-detecting cells, known as hair cells, are born in the mammalian inner ear. A report on the proteins was published in eLife.

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