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Opal Sandy, who was born completely deaf because of a rare genetic condition, and can now hear unaided for the first time after receiving ground-breaking gene therapy at 11-months-old, at her home in Eynsham, Oxfordshire

The Daily Skimm, May 10th

All Ears

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The first patient in a pioneering gene therapy trial had her hearing restored.

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Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from the UK, was born deaf due to auditory neuropathy, a condition caused by a faulty gene that doesn’t allow the ear to communicate sound to the brain properly.

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