A decade ago, NIH researchers studying an inherited type of deafness in a single extended family managed to identify the mutation responsible. They named the family's condition DFNA27 deafness, after the region on chromosome 4 where the mutation resides.
In another step forward in the world of 3-D printed tissues, U.S. scientists report they've created a "bioprosthetic" ovary in a mouse using the technology -- and the mouse has given birth to healthy pups.