Reengineering Life

A New Gene-Editing Treatment Let Deaf Mice Hear Again

The technique could pave the way for a human treatment

Emily Mullin
OneZero
Published in
4 min readJun 9, 2020

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Photo illustration. Photo: Tara Moore/Getty Images

Reengineering Life is a series from OneZero about the astonishing ways genetic technology is changing humanity and the world around us.

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.