A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking ...

A groundbreaking gene therapy trial has successfully restored hearing in individuals with a rare form of congenital deafness.

An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial. Scientists have ...

The treatment targets a specific type of inherited deafness caused by mutations in a gene called OTOF.

Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...

About half of the time someone is born totally deaf, it’s because of their genetic makeup. Those people are typically treated with cochlear implants, but now researchers from Europe and the U.S. are ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for ...

Here, we would like to draw attention to rural signing communities, namely communities where a village sign language 7, 8 is shared among deaf and hearing people, and commonly used in the population.

As a design director who was born Deaf, Jeffrey Mansfield has long been interested in the relationship between Deafness and physical spaces. He has noticed how spaces designed with Deafness in mind, ...