Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
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The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.
A drug applied to the ears of deaf mice has prompted the regrowth of noise-damaged hair cells and resulted in slight improvements in the animals’ hearing.
Altered touch perception in deaf people may reveal individual differences in brain plasticity.
People with a defect in an ion channel that causes deafness are more sensitive to certain types of touch.
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