PNAS Papers on Ultrarare Hearing Loss Variants, Telomeres with Human Herpesvirus Integration, More

Nov 24, 2020

Researchers at the Pasteur Institute and elsewhere describe ultrarare variants that appear to contribute to familial and sporadic forms of age-related hearing loss, called presbycusis.

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