Science Watch: Progress in search for Usher's cure

Following hot in the footsteps of one or two or more recent scientific breakthroughs in the search for cures for hearing problems, this is from BBC News who are reporting that scientists are now using a genetic sticking plaster on faulty DNA to stop hearing and sight loss in people who have Usher syndrome.

A tiny "genetic patch" can be used to prevent a form of deafness which runs in families, according to animal tests.
Patients with Usher syndrome have defective sections of their genetic code which cause problems with hearing, sight and balance.

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The Deaf Arts Network (DAN) interviews Deaf Photographer Edan Chapman

Check out this interview by the DAN (Deaf Arts Network) from Australia with Edan Chapman who is an accomplished deaf photographer who also has Usher Syndrome. In this fascinating and subtitled interview, he explains how the camera became his way of seeing when his peripheral vision began to deteriorate.

Check out some of his work



Via Lanks Patel