The parents of a U.K. toddler say it's "absolutely mind-blowing" to see their daughter, enrolled in a gene therapy trial, ...

The gene therapy Opal received involved the transmission into her right ear of a working copy of the OTOF gene, delivered ...

Opal Sandy was born into a world she could not hear. The British baby girl, now 18 months old, had a rare genetic condition ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University used an experimental CRISPR-based gene editing treatment in participants ...

Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to “normal hearing levels” in a gene therapy ...

Hearing loss affects about 1.5 billion people, while congenital deafness—hearing loss present at birth—affects approximately ...

Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes ...

China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial ...

An 11-year-old boy in Warren has made medical history. He is one of two children in the world to receive an experimental gene ...

A UK girl born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment. Opal Sandy was treated shortly ...

A British toddler born with a genetic condition resulting in deafness can now hear in one ear thanks to a pioneering new gene ...