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Boston – US researchers have used a base editor in mice to repair the genetic defect of autosomal dominant deafness-50 (DFNA50), which leads to hearing loss in humans from the teenage years onwards. The results were published in Science Translational Medicine (2024; DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adn0689). Autosomal dominant deafness-50 (DFNA50), a disease first described in 2004, is the result of mutations in MicroRNA-96 (MIR96)….