ASO-Type Drug That Can Effectively Rescue Hearing Opens the Door to Development

[pen]

Hi all,
this looks intresting, the article says:
The discovery of an ASO-type drug that can effectively rescue hearing opens the door to developing similar approaches to target and cure other causes of hearing loss," says Dr. Hastings who has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health to further develop the ASOs for the treatment of deafness with Drs. Lentz, Rigo and Duelli.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130208152806.htm

So if you can treat hearing loss, you can treat T

 

[joejunior]

This is great - gene therapy is coming of age

 

[mock turtle]

pen thanks for the article

hmmm an ASO drug

"RNA-like molecule, called an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)"​

i try to learn these words, and struggle...but the idea that researchers can manipulate the g-nome to overcome hearing loss is great news...hope they hurry up ​

best wishes​

mock turtle​

 

[Louise]

You've just made me chuckle MT with your 'hope they hurry up' but its for quite a dark reason..... yesterday I was thinking about something that someone posted about rushing through new drugs and I thought that they might be more likely to try out new drugs on us older ones!!