Progressive hearing loss might be aided by gene-editing therapies that use tiny messengers to nudge cells to repair themselves, a study led by University of Florida Health has discovered.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Mei He, Ph.D., an associate professor of pharmaceutics in the UF College of Pharmacy, and Xiaoshu Pan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in He’s lab, looked to extracellular vesicles — nano-sized, bubble-like packages that cells release to communicate with one another — in the search for new treatments for progressive, nonsyndromic hearing loss.
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