Stereocilia (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stereocilia

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Treatment with a genome editing agent can preserve sound-detecting bristles in the inner ear of mice with genetic deafness (white box, left). Without the treatment, these bristles disappear (white box, right).

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Gao et al. /<i>Nature</i> 2017

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