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May 11, 2024

Baby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy

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**Breakthrough*** Clinical trial shows promising results.

Opal Sandy from Oxfordshire is the first patient treated in a global gene therapy trial, which shows ‘mind-blowing’ results.


A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was 11 months old at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

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