Gene Therapy Breakthrough in Treatment of Age-Related Hearing Loss
Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear, part of Mass General Brigham, have successfully used adeno-associated virus vectors in gene therapies to treat genetic hearing loss…
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Harvard Researchers Design “Mini Gene” Therapy for Severe Genetic Disease
Researchers have developed a “mini gene” therapy for a debilitating syndrome that results in both blindness and deafness. Usher Syndrome type 1F is a rare,…
Why Colds, Flu, and COVID-19 Are More Common in Cooler Months: Biological Explanation Uncovered
A newly discovered immune response inside the nose is suppressed by colder temperatures, offering evidence for why upper respiratory infections such as colds, flu, and…
Harvard-Developed Model Can Determine Your Hidden Hearing Loss
In one of the biggest retrospective studies of its type, researchers analyzed data from roughly 96,000 ears and created a word-score model that may determine…
Progress on AAVCOVID, A Gene-Based Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine
AAVCOVID technology is unique in the vaccine field in its ability to scale and adapt rapidly. Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),…
Researchers Restore Hearing to Noise-Damaged Ears
By using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School…
