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Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing
- justinclift 3y agoIn mice. > the researchers coaxed the hair cells to regrow in mice ...
- yieldcrv 3y agoany thoughts on the applicability to humans?
- justinclift 3y agoNope, not my field. ;)
- yieldcrv 3y agowhat are the risks with siRNA genetic pathway unblocking research? ah hell after typing that I dont know why I didnt just ask an AI that had data up till late 2021
- hammyhavoc 3y agoI wouldn't trust an AI not to hallucinate over such a niche topic.
- petra 3y agoThis is possibly a cure for tinnitus. Which is awesome news!
- dombesz 3y agoWhat makes you think that?
- jryb 3y agoMany (maybe most?) tinnitus cases develop after some partial hearing loss. The mechanism is not known, but one hypothesis is that the brain is "compensating" for frequencies it never hears anymore.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoMy tinnitus is in a range I can hear fine.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoHearing is logarithmic, the response is non-linear, ergo you may hear X000Hz but not hear X001Hz, yet hear X002Hz. X003Hz may be easier to hear, yet X004Hz may be more difficult than some. It's not a smooth response. Take a look at some hearing response graphs to get an idea of how variable it can be across the frequency spectrum.
- jryb 3y agoYou may notice that I didn't say it was a universal, inescapable experience for those with tinnitus. The question was why there is any relationship at all between hearing loss and tinnitus, which does hold in a large number of cases.
- pier25 3y agoMaybe some cases of tinnitus because AFAIK it commonly originates in the brain, not the ear.
- CommanderData 3y agoBeen following hearing regen news for some time. There's been some recent failed drugs in this space notably recently FREQ Fx-322. That also showed efficacy in mice and reached phase 2 before being dropped. Hearing is a complicated issue, there's many connections that need to be made for hearing to work even besides the brains ability to relearn and regonize said signals. Good news but we've been here before.
- egberts1 3y agoProblem with mRNA is in the quality control and its effort not to include stray mRNA strands which may result in things perhaps like growing stomach wall clumps or large intestine clumps.