A few of the possible treatments for age-related conditions presently under development are essentially enhancement therapies. They compensate in some way for losses incurred over the course of degenerative aging by adding functionality. Some of these treatments, by their nature, can in principle enhance function in young individuals as well. In age-related hearing loss, part of the problem is the loss of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, and part of the problem is the loss of axonal connections between those cells and the brain. What if a therapy could provoke the growth of new axons (and possibly new hair cells…
NTF3 Upregulation Produces Better than Normal Hearing in Mice
A few of the possible treatments for age-related conditions presently under development are essentially enhancement therapies. They compensate in some way for losses incurred over the course of degenerative aging by adding functionality. Some of these treatments, by their nature, can in principle enhance function in young individuals as well. In age-related hearing loss, part of the problem is the loss of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, and part of the problem is the loss of axonal connections between those cells and the brain. What if a therapy could provoke the growth of new axons (and possibly new hair cells…