Gene-Editing Found To Preserve Hearing In Mice And It Could Do The Same For Humans

There are around 11 million people in the UK, or one in six members of the population, who suffer with hearing loss, and nearly half of all these cases have a genetic cause.Treatment has long been limited because scientists didn’t have the right technology at their disposal to treat the underlying problem, but a new study has found gene editing could provide the solution. Investigator David Liu, who worked on the study, said: “[It] could make a major difference in hearing-loss patien