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The Ears
Our hearing gets worse as we get older because every time a hair cell dies in our inner ear, it does not get replaced.
Hair cells are invaluable to the hearing process.
Experts trying combat this have found that by putting a gene in the surrounding cells once a hair cell has died, it looks and acts as a replacement.
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