Scientists Say They Have a New Cure for Hearing Loss

[Dubbyaman]

Any thoughts on this?
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-28/scientists-say-they-have-new-cure-hearing-loss

 

[Aaron123]

Any thoughts on this?

Yes, it is an article about the Novartis/Genvec trial for CGF166. It's from November so there is nothing new.

 

[NineNails]

if we can introduce the correct DNA sequence, we can make those cells functional again.

Wishful thinking.

 

[Poyraz]

I think this is not more than what we have already known. Birds can grow new hearing cells after an damage and human can't. Science want to make it happen for human beings too. That's all.