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Scientists at two Israeli universities unlock a vital part of the puzzle into what causes deafness.
By Brian Blum
NOVEMBER 12, 2017, 8:34 AM
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Researchers on the quest to solve the puzzle of what causes deafness got one small step closer with the announcement that scientists at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have mapped a certain type of RNA (a molecule essential to the coding and expression of genes) that exists in close proximity to the genes related to hearing.
The molecules in question are known as
