{"id":131299,"date":"2024-11-29T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131299"},"modified":"2024-11-29T06:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:07:51","slug":"pioneering-gene-therapy-restores-deaf-toddlers-hearing-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131299","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering gene therapy restores deaf toddler&#8217;s hearing | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oRgjPiShACA?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A UK toddler born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday &#8211; and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk, saying words such as &#8220;Mama&#8221;, &#8220;Dada&#8221; and &#8220;uh-oh&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Given as an infusion into the ear, the therapy replaces faulty DNA causing her type of inherited deafness.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is recruiting patients in the UK, US and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#GeneTherapy #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRgjPiShACA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK toddler born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment. Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday &#8211; and six months on, can hear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131299\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}