Hearing and balance are rescued by a synthetic virus that delivers a transgene to the inner ear of neonatal mice.
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Karen Thiebes, Ph.D., created the artwork for Figure 1. Work in the author's laboratory is funded by the Hearing Health Foundation's Hearing Restoration Project and by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
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Brigande, J. Hearing in the mouse of Usher. Nat Biotechnol 35, 216–218 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3815
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