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Hearing restored with gene therapy for rare kind of deafness : NPR

Hearing restored with gene therapy for rare kind of deafness : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Dr. Yilai Shu examines a young patient at the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University in China. Mass General Brigham hide caption toggle caption Mass General Brigham An experimental gene therapy appears safe and highly effective for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. The study, the largest and longest to date to evaluate a gene therapy for hearing loss, provides powerful new evidence that the approach may provide the first way to restore hearing to people who are deaf. “The results are really remarkable,” Zheng-Yi Chen, an associate scientist at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston who led the study, published in the journal Nature. “This is really for the first time in the whole field a brand-new treatment option for genetic hearing loss. So that’s very exciting.” The results, which confirm and extend a smaller study published two years ago, are consistent with those produced by several other research groups testing similar gene therapies for several forms of genetic deafness. In fact, a treatment developed …

Dave Chappelle Helps Keep Ohio Radio Station Rooted in Hometown With Restored Building

Dave Chappelle Helps Keep Ohio Radio Station Rooted in Hometown With Restored Building

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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle stood on the front lawn of a newly restored 19th-century schoolhouse Thursday, joining neighbors and local officials as a small-town radio station secured its future in the community he calls home. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked two historic moments: Chappelle’s restoration of the Union Schoolhouse and WYSO’s relocation of its new broadcast facility inside it, bringing together distinct efforts to keep the station rooted in Yellow Springs at a time when local media outlets face mounting challenges. “It’s like our lifeblood in the community,” Chappelle told The Associated Press about the station, recalling how its possible departure to nearby Dayton would have been “a crushing blow” for Yellow Springs. More than 200 people gathered outside the former Union Schoolhouse, where Chappelle attended along with his wife, mother, station leaders and village officials, including Yellow Springs Mayor Steve McQueen and Dayton Mayor Shenise Turner-Sloss, to celebrate the opening the schoolhouse and the 68-year-old station into its next chapter. The Union Schoolhouse was originally built in 1872 and once served …

Mother who lost sight after birth has vision restored following plasma donation | UK News

Mother who lost sight after birth has vision restored following plasma donation | UK News

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A mother left blind after the birth of her first child has had her sight restored following a plasma donation. Jessica Kent-Hazledine, 33, woke up two weeks after giving birth to her son with little vision in her left eye. She put that down to tiredness but then lost vision in her right eye, leaving her fearing “the worst”. But a year on, she said her sight is “so much better”. ‘I thought I’d never see my son again’ Ms Kent-Hazledine, from Cornwall, said: “I was a new mum, not getting much sleep. “But I thought I should probably get it checked out, and the next thing I knew, I was having an urgent MRI and blood tests. It was all very scary; I was thinking the worst. “When my vision went in my right eye, too, I was terrified – I thought I wouldn’t be able to see my baby grow up. “I wouldn’t be able to see how his face changed or when he took his first steps or had his first day …

Bellini Altarpiece in Venice to Be Restored While the Public Watches

Bellini Altarpiece in Venice to Be Restored While the Public Watches

Published by Jenni Sidey

A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice’s vaunted Gallerie dell’Accademia will be restored behind glass—giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process—over a two-year period estimated to cost €500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell’Accademia described as “a construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiece.” Painted between 1478 and the late 1480s, the so-called San Giobbe Altarpiece marks “a decisive turning point in the evolution of the Venetian altarpiece, according to the Gallerie dell-Accademia, which has undertaken the restoration in collaboration with the international non-profit Venetian Heritage. (The work’s official title, for the record: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Musician Angels and Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse.) Related Articles As reported in Artnet News, the altarpiece was moved from San Giobbe church in the 1810s for an earlier round of restoration after three centuries of wetness put it in peril. Regarding the recent …

Calder Sculpture in D.C. to Be Restored a Decade After Dismantling

Calder Sculpture in D.C. to Be Restored a Decade After Dismantling

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A partially dismantled sculpture by Alexander Calder in Washington, D.C. is, at long last, in the process of being restored, according to Roll Call, a publication that focuses on Capitol Hill-based news. The sculpture in question, Mountains and Clouds, fills the 90-foot-high, skylit atrium of the Hill’s Hart Senate Office Building, which was constructed in the 1970s and first occupied in 1982. Calder’s proposal was chosen from a group of five sculptors who were tasked with designing “a work that would harmonize with the atrium’s surrounding white marble architecture and yet stand apart from the cluttering distraction of adjacent doors, windows, and balconies,” according to the Senate website.  Related Articles Calder made the final adjustments to his sheet-metal maquette on November 10, 1976; he died the following day in New York City. Construction on Mountains and Clouds began a decade later, in 1986, and the monumental sculpture, made out of black-painted aircraft aluminum, was dedicated the following year. It is—or, rather, was—51 feet tall overall. In 2016, the 75-foot-wide “clouds” portion of the sculpture, which …

YouTube Restored After Suffering Outage Tuesday Night

YouTube Restored After Suffering Outage Tuesday Night

Published by Daniella Wilson

YouTube, which is owned by Google, suffered an outage Tuesday night. When trying to access the platform via desktop and mobile, videos wouldn’t appear to load and users were met with the message, “Something went wrong. Try again.” The platform went down at around 5 p.m. PT, but as of 6:05 p.m. PT, it appeared to be restored. As a result of the outage, people quickly flooded X to share their frustrations, with #YouTubeDOWN becoming the top trending search. “How am I supposed to eat my dinner without a 40-minute video playing in the background? I’m just sitting here staring at my food like a weirdo. Fix the servers @YouTube,” one user wrote, while another one added, “YouTube is down! What is happening???” The official X account TeamYouTube later shared in an update, “If you’re having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you’re not alone — our teams are looking into this and will follow up here with updates.” YouTube is one of the world’s largest online video-sharing platforms and, as of 2024-2025, has more than …

Empress Eugénie’s damaged crown will be restored, museum vows

Empress Eugénie’s damaged crown will be restored, museum vows

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The damaged crown of Empress Eugénie after it was dropped during the heist from the Louvre Museum on October 19, 2025. THOMAS CLOT / AFP The crown of French Empress Eugénie, which was abandoned by fleeing thieves who staged a brazen robbery at the Louvre last year, is nearly intact and will be fully restored, the museum said on Wednesday, February 4. The thieves who robbed the famed Paris museum last October made off with an estimated €88 million in jewels, but dropped the empress’s diamond- and emerald-studded crown as they escaped, leaving it crushed and broken. Investigators have yet to locate the other jewels, but recovered the dropped crown. The Louvre said in a statement the piece had been “badly deformed,” but remained “nearly intact” and would be restored to its original state, “without the need for reconstruction.” The museum said the crown was damaged when the thieves tried to remove it through a narrow hole they had sawed in the glass case where it was displayed. Read more Subscribers only Paris police Louvre …

Empress’s crown dropped by Louvre heist thieves to be fully restored

Empress’s crown dropped by Louvre heist thieves to be fully restored

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The crown of French Empress Eugenie, which was abandoned by fleeing thieves who staged a brazen robbery at the Louvre last year, is nearly intact and will be fully restored, the museum said Wednesday. The thieves who robbed the famed Paris museum last October made off with an estimated €88 million ($104 million) in jewels, but dropped the empress’s diamond- and emerald-studded crown as they escaped, leaving it crushed and broken. Investigators have yet to locate the other jewels, but recovered the dropped crown. Watch moreThe looted list: Louvre jewels added to international database The Louvre said in a statement the piece had been “badly deformed”, but remained “nearly intact” and would be restored to its original state, “without the need for reconstruction”. The museum said the crown was damaged when the thieves tried to remove it through a narrow hole they had sawed in the glass case where it was displayed. Photo showing the crown of Empress Eugenie de Montijo prior to it being damaged during the heist from the Apollo Gallery at the …

TikTok says its services are restored after the outage

TikTok says its services are restored after the outage

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TikTok, which is under new ownership in the U.S., said Sunday that it has restored service after outages last week that marred user experiences. The social network has over 220 million users in the U.S. The company blamed last week’s snowstorm, which caused an outage at an Oracle-operated data center responsible for TikTok operations. “We have successfully restored TikTok back to normal after a significant outage caused by winter weather took down a primary U.S. data center site operated by Oracle. The winter storm led to a power outage which caused network and storage issues at the site and impacted tens of thousands of servers that help keep TikTok running in the U.S. This affected many of TikTok’s core features—from content posting and discovery to the real-time display of video likes and view counts,” the company said in a post on X. In January, the U.S. finalized the deal to create a separate entity for TikTok. A U.S.-based investor consortium called TikTok USDS took a controlling 80% stake, with the remaining 20% ownership held by …