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My hearing was tested in my second round in kindergarten. I started school when I was six years old because if when my birthday was. I fell asleep in class because I could not understand what was going on in the room. I got my hearing tested when I started kindergarten the second time.
 
  
 
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Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
 
 
  
Yasheng Yuan, Ph.D., Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, aims to develop a cell-based therapy to replace auditory neurons. We have shown that neural progenitor cells derived from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells transplanted into the auditory nerve send out fibers that grow to hair cells and to the cochlear nucleus. Read more about his research.
 
 
 
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