Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans, and one that will probably affect most of us to some extent at some point in our lives. The usual cause of the condition is the progressive loss of inner ear sensory hair cells and synapses caused by aging, although numerous other factors may be at play, such as genetic predisposition, infections and ototoxic medicines.
Yet hearing loss remains an area of significant unmet clinical need. Current approaches mostly involve hearing devices that rely on...