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A UK toddler born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment.
Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday - and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk, saying words such as "Mama", "Dada" and "uh-oh".
Given as an infusion into the ear, the therapy replaces faulty DNA causing her type of inherited deafness.
The trial is recruiting patients in the UK, US and Spain.
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@sharonbyrd8625 4 месяца назад

Hurray for science! So many will benefit from this. Congratulations

@Nickdeaugustine 4 месяца назад

Science is truly miraculous!

@hypercc1 4 месяца назад

Bravo. This is why science is so important. To help a deaf child hear is, frankly, amazing.

@Venator237 4 месяца назад

This is a great accomplishment! I hope this will be the first step to helping more people.

@Narloxs 4 месяца назад

In no time at all we will have cured every disease in existence. Crazy time to be alive.

@artvampire5421 3 месяца назад

@@Narloxsdeafness isn’t a disease it’s a disability

@cianlewis-hughes5172 3 месяца назад

No we won’t, costs too much money, they don’t want to help people only the young they help & that’s it

@sharpshooter4063 4 месяца назад

Now this is the type of media hype we need. Positive news

@RogerMellie-yk3gw 4 месяца назад

Deaf people might not agree. They're quite happy to be Deaf

@jacoburban2757 4 месяца назад

⁠@@RogerMellie-yk3gwwhile that is true deaf people still face barriers in our society and giving a child a life where she will never have to face these barriers is a accomplishment that should be celebrated

@RogerMellie-yk3gw 4 месяца назад

@@jacoburban2757 Not really. Robbing of the opportunity of being part of a proud Deaf culture and community isn't necessarily a good thing.

@SC_jamesbond007jua Месяц назад

@@RogerMellie-yk3gw Nah deaf community will no longer be in the future because of gene therapy deafness

@Redzwan 4 месяца назад

Congratulations UK doctors and researchers.

@directoraldo 4 месяца назад

What a time to be alive 🙌🏾 I hope they're working on one that can cure depression too 😢

@codswallop164 4 месяца назад

No thanks the last time they had to lock us down to cause depression before propagandizing us into the gene therapy.

@jbcentral1545 4 месяца назад

I agree, and anxiety 😟

@Universalis71384 4 месяца назад

SSRI

@jbcentral1545 4 месяца назад

@@Universalis71384 Been there, done that. Tablets produce a false effect, the only way to overcome the issues in one’s head is to actually address them properly. Medication does nothing to help it at worst, and maybe only mildly masks it at best. My anxiety is deep rooted and likely stems from past events in my life. Until I’ve figured out everything in my head, or my brain is somehow rewired through some groundbreaking surgery… medicine will not do anything for it.

@maiorproposita9957 4 месяца назад

Anxiety and depression have nothing to do with genes. They can be solved with psychological therapies

@jakebhenry2228 4 месяца назад

Yes, SCIENCE!

@kellyrobinson6663 4 месяца назад

This is the kinda news that makes you believe in the goodness of humanity and should be splashed across all front pages of the news. Well bloody done to the medical professionals on this amazing win. So pleased for this little girl and her family ❤

@ReallyJustAnotherDay 4 месяца назад

What a beautiful name for this little angel. Very happy news. Congratulations to all involved.

@KasirRham 4 месяца назад

Congratulations to the doctors, scientists, and of course to Opal and her family

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

What an amazing progress it is! Wow!

@samaafaiz6523 4 месяца назад

Such mind-blowing invention I hope that all humanity able to have the benefit of it ; it will be redeem for a numberless of disorders

@djjjjj 4 месяца назад

Thats amazing

@zahidchoudhryzahidchoudhry7452 4 месяца назад

Accolades for the team of doctors who performed this feat and best wishes for the child and family💐

@palashmatt1435 4 месяца назад

Outstanding massage 😮 Thank you BBC team.

@alumina1388 4 месяца назад

Well done to everyone who are involved in this miracle

@MrSidReal 4 месяца назад

Things are really progressing at the speed of science

@flashflame4952 4 месяца назад

I've always been a real SCIENCE DORK and this is just another reason why I am happy to be one! Fantastic!!! Well done Science!!!!

@Anonymous77h 4 месяца назад

God bless you baby 😇

@ShelleyM007 4 месяца назад

So wonderful to see news which is pure joy, happiness (and true hope for other deaf children/ people in the future!)

@krisfinley6706 4 месяца назад

This is incredible news! 👏 As someone else mentioned, I hope they'll soon develop a treatment like this for blindness as well 🙏

@司徒王朗-y2v 4 месяца назад

Awesome. Thumbs up to you scientists.

@karlacostar4114 4 месяца назад

This is amazing. This could cure so many. This is just the beginning. Wow i think of all the people with genetic illnesses like cysticfibrosis , heart disease... blindness. ect How this could stop suffering

@ericastones1052 3 месяца назад

This can help many people from those born unable to walk to blind and deaf. This will be amazing and our government won't allow it.

@michaeltoma9329 4 месяца назад

I’m all for it, keep progressing our technological and scientific capabilities.

@Tini_Scrapitti 4 месяца назад

Awesome! One can understand the parents' fear and hesitation, as there always will be risk with new technologies and treatments, but SCIENCE ROCKS!

@jacoburban2757 4 месяца назад

As a geologist major I appreciate this comment 😂😂

@JakesOnline 4 месяца назад

Finally, a video that explains how it works.

@Natashreo 4 месяца назад

Human DNA is like computer code. It can be edited. This is huge.

@alikanadkrk709 4 месяца назад

How may I find Doctors or Hospitals about treatment.Please help me regarding this topic because I have 2 deaf siblings.I wanna change them life.

@BilalMammari 4 месяца назад

Me too I try to find them

@nimratalha8828 3 месяца назад

Me too... i have 2 deaf children

@misssandhuoriginal 2 месяца назад

Me too

@ReginaK2 4 месяца назад

Amazing!

@kiringo4807 4 месяца назад

Can it be done on elders?

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

Not yet.

@cianlewis-hughes5172 3 месяца назад

In about 1000 years at this rate

@SC_jamesbond007jua Месяц назад

I'm waiting for it and 25 years old.

@marianlincoln9008 4 месяца назад

NOW if they can do the same thing for blindness... how Miraculous that will be. Im sure Helene Keller would Approve.

@stonehorsegaming 4 месяца назад

This is fantastic!

@kimberlyperrotis8962 4 месяца назад

Wonderful!

@besnikzogaj9887 4 месяца назад

Well done, science warriors!

@charlesapana9935 4 месяца назад

Amazing

@fullstack5461 4 месяца назад

That's great news!

@samsontashome Месяц назад

Good news, especially for families like me who have children like her! One day my baby could hear....

@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh 4 месяца назад

.brilliant brilliant brilliant

@mateiteca1780 4 месяца назад

Great news, congrats!

@teona819 4 месяца назад

I hope they make it available for others too🤞

@lippydalips4537 4 месяца назад

That's Amazing!😊❤👍🏻

@phoenixreborn6065 4 месяца назад

"No real evidence of any harm or adverse effects" - Where have heard that one before? 🤔

@briantitchener4829 4 месяца назад

Apparenly, they used a harmless virus to deliver the DNA. Hope it's safer than something else.

@farazzardariali. 4 месяца назад

This is not only a science anymore add the word magic 😂❤

@JosephineEze79 4 месяца назад

Deaf ppl are gonna say this is a blow on the deaf community.

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

Don’t put your words in other’s mouth..

@DartmoorAR 4 месяца назад

Some of them are definitely opposed to this. Most agree that it is the absolute right of the parents.

@AyshaFatima-h9t 3 месяца назад

I want to apply for my daughter 20 month old India

@kainaat-ummati 4 месяца назад

Can anyone please explain which gene is replay

@Nickdeaugustine 4 месяца назад

They explained it in the video 1:24 It's the OTOF gene. Definitely worth googling.

@BondJFK 4 месяца назад

onlyfans gene

@titteryenot4524 4 месяца назад

Gene Simmons.

@curiositycloset2359 4 месяца назад

At least they are doing actual trials on this one, rather than rolling it out on mass, under emergency legislation.

@j7ndominica051 4 месяца назад

Does it only work on babies because they are still growing? Will they undo the "cochealr implant"? Imagine having assymetric hearing with one headphone only.

@curiositycloset2359 4 месяца назад

I have that. It's fine.

@ruthsutherland2573 4 месяца назад

It'll be good to see the studies and science behind this new therapy.

@fionajordan6842 4 месяца назад

You can look it up

@ruthsutherland2573 4 месяца назад

@@fionajordan6842 were will that be please send any info

@arielcurra7647 4 месяца назад

Wonderful

@RajeshKumar-tv9hn 4 месяца назад

Wow congratulations x x. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 x. I lost my hearing through mumps will it work for me omg x x. 😢😮😢🎉😮😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

@followeroftheway8454 4 месяца назад

Opal's can be unlucky but it seems it was lucky for her. 😊

@DG123z 4 месяца назад

And so it begins

@lfeb 4 месяца назад

WOW!!!!

@sarah-kk4om 4 месяца назад

The words gene therapy are chilling. Poor baby has been genetically modified. I hope she will be ok

@followeroftheway8454 4 месяца назад

How does that replace her original DNA within the ear, unless it was via her blood, but it would have to replace her original faulty DNA gene chain?

@ShivaRajpoot99 4 месяца назад

How much it costs? Anyone please

@SunitaLandge-t2k 4 месяца назад

Therapy kya hai

@blitzsturm5614 2 месяца назад

Thank the doctors. We need her to be older to tell

@Anonymous77h 4 месяца назад

When will gene therapy available in india ?

@targetguy777 2 месяца назад

wow glad to hear finally a cure however 60 yrs to late for my sister.

@DW-indeed 4 месяца назад

Pardon?

@JASON9948 4 месяца назад

The first Post Birth Genetically Modified Human

@MrSwordmaster123 Месяц назад

my son is waiting for this....

@al28854 4 месяца назад

1:24 'A harmless modified virus'. So isn't how the zombie apocalypse started in the movie 'I Am Legend' ?

@joermnyc 4 месяца назад

Modified viruses have been used for many things from these treatments to vaccines (most vaccines are inert viruses, unable to make you sick, but it’s still enough to get your immune system on the attack.)

@briantitchener4829 4 месяца назад

Movies? This is the real world.

@jeffmeyer9319 4 месяца назад

Miraculous

@AP-qj9qu 4 месяца назад

What was the cost involved in this process????

@MariaMartinez-researcher 4 месяца назад

02:46. This was part of an international study.

@briantitchener4829 4 месяца назад

@@MariaMartinez-researcher Nothing for the family involved. NHS.

@coffeecrashed 4 месяца назад

YEA, SCIENCE!

@ramut108 4 месяца назад

When it's come to India

@PCs454 4 месяца назад

so it only works for babies? i want to edit myself like video game customiser :(

@polygonalmasonary 4 месяца назад

Another medical miracle first for Britain that American medical companies will profiteer off the back of 😞🇬🇧🌈♥️🙏

@markmartin2292 4 месяца назад

Cure baldness next.

@Nxck2440 4 месяца назад

no you can live with that

@auro1986 4 месяца назад

now all can listen to bbc

@SherKhan-if5ew 4 месяца назад

Is this More Affective than Cochlear implant .

@rebekahlittle2131 4 месяца назад

❤

@JT0007 4 месяца назад

More evolved 🫡🇺🇸🇬🇧

@TSOP2020 4 месяца назад

Only a matter of time before cyberpunk 2077 is a reality and character customization will be a real thing.

@Hearing_Health 4 месяца назад

This is just the future. Birds have been able to regenerate their hearing forever. Soon hearing loss and tinnitus will be cured with a simple pill or injection.

@pranititiwari6525 4 месяца назад

🙏🎉👍

@XxTheAwokenOnexX 4 месяца назад

👍

@HenkyMizella 4 месяца назад

😊

@skymanifest8339 4 месяца назад

Wow, the BBC actually acknowledges the existence of British people.

@AA-ws2uw 4 месяца назад

This will be weaponised too 😢

@lokitan-hk6ze 3 месяца назад

What a breakthrough

@curiositycloset2359 4 месяца назад

Lol remember when everybody took experimental gene therapy drugs, four years ago, without any idea of the long term consequences? That was wild 😅

@Tao_Tology 4 месяца назад

No, dear, since that didn't happen. Apart from your not having any idea. Because you are willfully igmorant.

@curiositycloset2359 4 месяца назад

@@Tao_Tology lol, it was untested. Still is. And you took it lol wilfully ignorant indeed.

@Tao_Tology 4 месяца назад

@@curiositycloset2359 "it was un..." Nope. 'lol' you really don't want to know. You _could_ read up on the work that was done........but you don't want that. 🤣

@Nxck2440 4 месяца назад

You know, words like "gene therapy" actually have meanings, it's not just "any science I don't like". Gene therapy means permanently changing the DNA of one or more cells in the body for therapeutic purposes, like what was done in this video. The vaccine did not change any DNA in any cell at any time. It delivered mRNA which was turned into a protein by your own cells which was used to defend against the coronavirus.

@curiositycloset2359 4 месяца назад

@@Tao_Tology LoL vaccines usually go through 10 to 15 years of trials. When was it developed, when was it rolled out? I'm afraid you can't accept reality. But that's not my problem, it's yours.

@Tao_Tology 4 месяца назад

It is important to remember that there are very many deaf people who have absolutely no interest in being "cured".

@Groundedsquirrel 4 месяца назад

The mother describes deafness as an obstacle, which it is not. What about deaf culture and language, right?

@Tao_Tology 4 месяца назад

@@Groundedsquirrel And the, implicit, attitude that someone who doesn't hear (or has limited hearing) "should" do.

@michaeltoma9329 4 месяца назад

I’m more progressive than most people, but there is no problem with “curing” deafness. Is there anything wrong with being deaf or blind? No. But I think preventing it in kids if possible is not wrong.

@Tao_Tology 4 месяца назад

@@michaeltoma9329 Honey, get over yourself.

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

It’s always better to be given a choice.

@thasannagulathasan5730 4 месяца назад

Jesus blessing the a baby 💗💞🌷✝️🛐 Halleluja Amen 🙏

@Laconic-ws4bz 4 месяца назад

Thank scientists. not your wishful thinking.

@elijah420stuffs2 4 месяца назад

Science does what religion can't

@dimamatat5548 4 месяца назад

Very good. But can we go even further, as in, making the child's hearing better than normal?

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

What for?

@dimamatat5548 4 месяца назад

@@annab9994 To make him work in search and rescue, reconnaissance, etc.

@Diarimahmoud 4 месяца назад

I'm really happy for those kinds who suffer from deaf ears and a little bit of what it is? So I appreciate u to not.

@sunnikhan4633 4 месяца назад

Could this help Autism??

@annab9994 4 месяца назад

No.

@evanmcarthur478 4 месяца назад

Now the poor will be able to hear!

@phoque121 4 месяца назад

Science 1 x 0 Religion 🤷‍♂

@maryammaryam5596 4 месяца назад

ignorant 🤡

@Ahmedmohamed-xj1gi 3 месяца назад

Religion such as Islam actually has scientific discoveries such as earth shape which is irregularly shaped ellipsoid and many more and that's coming from a book written 1,400 years ago , Islam embraces science and encourage people to read and learn

@phoque121 3 месяца назад

@@Ahmedmohamed-xj1gi That's like saying that the N@zis were not that bad because they had good policies on infrastructure

@Ahmedmohamed-xj1gi 3 месяца назад

@@phoque121 We can't compare islam to nazism because musims and christians and non believers lived side by side and are still living side by side in many countries , from the Quran verses too

@phoque121 3 месяца назад

@@Ahmedmohamed-xj1gi India: war against Hindus; Israel: war against Jews; Europe/US: war against Christians, Atheists and Agnostics; Myanmar: war against Buddhists There seem to be few places where they are not at war against other religious groups there (except for places that used to be diverse until minorities were just exterminated, like Turkey)