Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by nehagup on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:34PM
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When I try and imagine what that must be like from the inside—I can’t think of anything more exciting or scary than to gain a new sense.
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Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by herbst on Sunday June 09, 2024 @03:53AM
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There are magnet Implantats you can put into your finger which lets you feel magnetic fields.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by meindnoch on Sunday June 09, 2024 @06:13AM
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That's not a new sense, just using the existing tactile system with a magnet.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by iandanforth on Sunday June 09, 2024 @08:01AM
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Senses are defined by what they sense, not how they are sensed. A person can have their sight partially restored through implants that bypass rod/cone activation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6934168/
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by meindnoch on Monday June 10, 2024 @09:16AM
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That's still signaling through the optic nerve.
If they would restore vision by using e.g. the cochlear nerve, that would be something.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by knodi123 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @03:06PM
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you'd be surprised.
I've heard about people experimenting by wearing a belt with dozens of haptic motors and a compass, so that it always indicates the direction of north. After a while wearing it, they stop consciously feeling the sensation of the vibration, and just feel "northness". And then when they take off the belt, they feel weirdly disoriented for a while, even in familiar places.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by LadyCailin on Sunday June 09, 2024 @07:41AM
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There is a belt you can wear that has vibrators around it, and it always vibrates the north facing side. I read that people who wore that for a few weeks started gaining the ability to create much more accurate maps in their head, which makes sense, this is how pigeons do it too, they basically can just always sense where north is.