A Chinese genetic treatment restores the audience for five of the 6 children with deafness

Researchers have said that a genetic treatment is a Chinese undertaking to develop it, which has restored children with innate design, which supports increasing evidence of the effectiveness of such treatments. According to a report published in the “Lancet” Medical Magazine, 5 of the 6 young children have acute deafness, an improvement in the hearing, as well as an improvement in the identification of speech after 6 months of treatment developed by the company “Rifrichin Thurabix”. All children suffered from severe deafness caused by mutations in a gene or. T. van (Autopherlin). Autopherlin -Protein is essential for transferring sound signals from ear to the brain. Previous research indicates that the mutations of this gene account for 2 to 3% of the innate deafness cases. A baby of every thousand in the United States suffers from hearing loss from average to sharp. The researchers used in surgical interventions at El -youn, the nose, ear and throat hospital at the University of Fodan, a virus that is not harmful to carrying a copy of the human gene to the inner ear of patients. The researchers added that the side effects were mostly minor, and none of them had a long -term effect. Researchers are not sure why the sixth child did not respond to the treatment. One of the possible explanations is that some of the genetic therapy solution leaks out of the inner ear during or after surgery. “We are very happy,” says Zhang Yi Chen, the scientist who participates in the Mass & Air Etone Pepodian Laboratories. He added in an interview with the American Radio NPR website: “This is the first time the trial has been restored for any adult or child by the new genetic treatment approach.” “This is a very important clinical study,” says Dr. Lawrence Ligs, head of the Department of Enacle, throat and throat, head and neck operations at the University of Columbia, adds: “This is the first time it appears that genetic deafness can be treated with genetic therapy.” Hearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, including about 26 million born with designers, according to Mass and Ear. As far as hearing loss in children is concerned, more than 60% of it is due to genetic causes.