Six deaf children can hear for the first time after breakthrough

A breakthrough treatment has allowed six deaf children, ages one through 11, to hear the world for the first time.

The children were part of two experimental groups in and the US, who were all born with a gene mutation that blocked production of a protein needed for hearing.

Scientists injected a version of the gene, called otoferlin (OTOF), into the inner ear, and the cells began producing the missing protein.

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