Beethoven Mice - engineered to have the same hearing condition as the composer - were able to hear after the research team at Harvard Medical School 'snipped' a mutation out of their DNA.
Scientists cured lab mice of deafness using gene-editing - paving the way to a similarly radical technique for humans.
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