Implant Injects DNA Into Ear, Improves Hearing

sciencehabit writes "Many people with profound hearing loss have been helped by devices called cochlear implants, but their hearing is still far from perfect. They often have trouble distinguishing different musical pitches, for example, or hearing a conversation in a noisy room. Now, researchers have found a clever way of using cochlear implants to deliver new genes into the ear — a therapy that, in guinea pigs, dramatically improves hearing (abstract)."

So the guinea pigus can now

[Anonymous Coward]

distinguish different musical pitches? That's good.

Double standard

[Dancindan84]

Sure, but when I inject DNA into someone's ear I get put on the sex offender registry.