Gene Therapy With a New Base Editing Technique Restores Hearing in Mice

Boston Children’s Hospital Discoveries article on new research from the labs of Jeffrey Holt, David Liu, and colleagues at the Broad and MIT ( co-first authors Wei-Hsi Yeh and Olga Shubina-Oleinik). Using a new genetic engineering technique, known as base editing, they restored hearing in mice with a known recessive genetic mutation.

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