Woman Born Deaf, Hears For The First Time

[Tank]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuUPc23flyw]The extraordinary moment a DEAF Woman is overcome with emotion as she HEARS for the first time - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Noomi]

Even the tiniest sounds sound so loud at first. Just a whisper can be unbearable, but as time goes by, you get used to it, and can cope with louder sounds.

She has joined the hearing world!

 

[waltky]

Hope for deaf children...

Gene Therapy That Cures Mice Might Cure Deaf Children
September 10, 2015 | Someday, it may be possible to cure children of deafness caused by a gene defect.

Researchers at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts are developing a cure for inherited deafness by introducing a working copy of a hearing gene. The defective gene is located in the inner ear. Researchers engineered a harmless cold virus to deliver the corrected gene deep inside the ear canal. “Our strategy was to take a viral vector, remove the viral genes so that it doesn’t make anyone sick, and to replace those with the correct DNA sequence for TMC1,” said Jeffrey Holt, lead researcher on the project

The gene, TMC1, is essential for hearing. It encodes proteins that convert sound into electrical signals the brain can recognize and process. “We found that we can restore function in both cases for recessive and dominant forms of TMC1 mutations,” he said. Recessive or dominant forms of deafness depend upon whether the defective hearing gene is inherited from one or both parents. To see whether their genetic repair worked, researchers used two types of deaf mice — each a model of dominant and recessive hearing loss.

A four-year-old deaf student sits inside her classroom in the specialized deaf unit program at the Little Rock Inclusive Early Childhood Development Center in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

They used the cold virus, known as adeno-associated virus, to carry a functioning TMC1 gene into the inner ears of the mice. Researchers found they could repair the mutated hearing gene; but, to tell whether the treated mice could actually hear, they had to put the rodents in a specially designed chamber with sensors that played really loud noise. “We can’t really ask a mouse if they are able to hear but we can play a loud, sudden sound and a normal mouse will jump in response to that," said Holt. "A deaf mouse does not move at all, but after our gene therapy treatment, the deaf mice began to jump.”

One in 1,000 people goes deaf in adolescence, according to Holt. He said inherited deafness can be caused by any one of 70 genes. Researchers say they hope the genetic technique that helped the deaf mice to hear can cure all inherited forms of deafness in children.

Gene Therapy That Cures Mice Might Cure Deaf Children

 

[JQPublic1]

[ame=[MEDIA=youtube]QuUPc23flyw[/MEDIA] extraordinary moment a DEAF Woman is overcome with emotion as she HEARS for the first time - YouTube[/ame]

Now I just hope that Al Sharpton, the NAACP and others get to her before she encounters racists like you and hears how BAD all blacks are.

I also hope she stays away from faux news and the rush Limbaugh show!

 

[blastoff]

Ahgun- EEEARR!!! ah-GUN-EEEEEARRR!!!!

And if race baiter Al Shakedown smells money he'll be in pimping mode lickety-split.