Gene therapy restores hearing to deaf Moroccan youth after 11 years of silence

Aissam experienced 11 years of social isolation and communication barriers due to congenital deafness before receiving gene therapy treatment.

For eleven years, a boy born in Morocco lived in a silence not chosen but inherited — the consequence of a genetic mutation that closed him off from the auditory world before he ever entered it. At a hospital in Spain, doctors did not work around that silence with devices or surgery, but reached into its cause, correcting the genetic instruction that had written deafness into his biology. Aissam Dam can now hear, and in that single fact rests a question that will reshape medicine: if the root of hereditary deafness can be rewritten, how many other silences might be answered?

Gene therapy restores hearing to deaf Moroccan youth after 11 years of silence

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