New Stem Cell Therapy

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ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2009) —
Deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation of stem cells that are capable of producing functional cell types might be a promising treatment for hearing impairment, but no human candidate cell type has been available to develop this technology.
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New Stem Cell Therapy May Lead To Treatment For Deafness
 
Nothing on the auditory nerve, but it looks like it could be superior to anything up to this point if they get it refined.
 
Never gonna happen....it's still very theoretical now. I lurk on a site for spinal cord injuiries and there are people there who were injuired decades ago. They were told that " Oh spinal cord regeneration is around the corner" ....Sound familair?
 
I totally agree. All these cures 'just around the corner'. The sad part is the money spent on all that research could be better spent helping deaf schools stay open.
 
I agree. it won't happen anytime soon for a couple of reasons:

1) stem cell to treat a non-threatening disorder using stem cell therapy is extremely risky

2) It is unlikely to be effective on humans and may not produce normal hearing. They have been proclaiming "cure" with stem cell for over a decade and we're still nowhere close to it. All the experiments were done on birds and rats. None were ever done on apes.
 
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