A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into the inner ear using a single injection. All ten patients, ranging from young children to adults, experienced improved hearing, with some showing rapid gains in just one month.
is this from genetic deafness, or acquired through injury, medication or disease, like shingles, because some of these damage the nerves it self.
Genetic. Specifically gene called OTOF.