https://biocomputer.com/tags/gene-therapy/ Recent content in Gene-Therapy on BIOCOMPUTER Hugo en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://biocomputer.com/blog/otof-gene-therapy-hearing-restored/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://biocomputer.com/blog/otof-gene-therapy-hearing-restored/ <p>In April 2026, a team from Karolinska Institutet and partner hospitals across China injected a synthetic virus carrying a working copy of the <em>OTOF</em> gene straight into the cochlea of ten patients born deaf. Every single one started hearing again. Average detection threshold dropped from 106 dB to 52 dB. A seven-year-old girl went from profound deafness to holding conversations with her mother in four months.</p> <p>This wasn&rsquo;t a cochlear implant. This wasn&rsquo;t training the brain around the damage. This was a one-shot firmware update to biological hardware that had been running broken code since birth.</p> <p>Biology is now programmable — and the inner ear just proved it at clinical scale.</p>