People can lose their hearing for a variety of reasons, from age to loud noises, but there’s one thing they all have in common. There are no drugs to help them. Several companies have formed in recent years to address this gap, and now there’s another coming to the party a bit late, but with deep pockets—a new startup called Decibel Therapeutics, which is embarking on a broad effort to figure out what makes us go deaf in the first place.
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