A groundbreaking gene therapy trial has restored hearing in both ears of five children born deaf, offering new hope for future treatments. The children, aged between one and eleven, suffered from genetic mutations that disrupted the production of a crucial protein needed for auditory signals to travel from the ear to the brain. Researchers at Fudan [...]
A research team from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) and the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) has participated in an international study that demonstrates the efficacy of a new drug for metastatic breast cancer with low expression of HER2, the protein found on the outside of tumor cells. This treatment, [...]
