Providing clues to deafness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene that is required for proper development of the mouse inner ear.In humans, this gene, known as FGF20, is located in a portion of the genome that has been associated with inherited deafness in otherwise healthy families.
Critic: this might help the deaf
Impact: it might help the deaf
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2012/01/03/new_clues_to_human_deafness_found_in_mice.html
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