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James Elliot Shearer

Sep 23, 2026

12:00
incredible.
12:00
So we have a pretty high bar.
12:02
Any therapy has to meet these criteria and in fact be better.
12:06
We know cochlear implants, for instance, there's only 20 electrodes in a cochlear implant that allow a person to hear.
12:12
We're typically born with thousands of hair cells.
12:15
And so where people with cochlear implants struggle is music, noisy environments, those difficult listening situations.
12:22
I would also say the other part about my field is that hearing loss is incredibly common.

8 MINS LATER

20:44
I'd love to know your thoughts on that as clinicians and people working with patients and seeing how the science can positively address a lot of diseases and disorders, but just because we can change our genes, should we?

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