A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking ...

This gene therapy regimen seems to be working wonders.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To an able-bodied audience, removing a sense is inherently terrifying, and that’s why it’s been such a perfect playground for ...

A groundbreaking gene therapy trial has successfully restored hearing in individuals with a rare form of congenital deafness.

Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...

Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...

About half of the time someone is born totally deaf, it’s because of their genetic makeup. Those people are typically treated with cochlear implants, but now researchers from Europe and the U.S. are ...

As a design director who was born Deaf, Jeffrey Mansfield has long been interested in the relationship between Deafness and physical spaces. He has noticed how spaces designed with Deafness in mind, ...

Conversations have two parts – listening and talking. But those who are deaf don’t simply lose one of those parts; they often have trouble with both. Hearing people speak is how we learn to speak ...

We had just moved to Beijing, China, where my husband had been transferred for his job with the State Department. I was still getting used to a new house, a new language, new foods and new friends. I ...

In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...