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Surgical Method for Virally Mediated Gene Delivery to the Mouse Inner Ear through the Round Window Membrane
Published on: March 16, 2015
Gene therapy for deaf mice goes viral
Jeffrey R Holt1, Luk H Vandenberghe
1Department of Otolaryngology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Center for Life Sciences 12251, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jeffrey.holt@childrens.harvard.edu
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