Newborn hearing screening - A silent revolution
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The prelingual hearing loss, which is either present at birth or begins before the age of five years, when language has normally been acquired, is explored. The most common genetic and environmental causes of congenital deafness can be established shortly after birth. Infants at risk for the most common genetic, environmental and preventable causes of late-onset prelingual hearing loss could be identified by conducting molecular tests on all infants for just four important causes of hearing loss.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2006
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Derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from human blastocysts
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The derivation and characterization of 17 human embryonic stem cell lines are reported. It is stated that human embryonic stem cell lines are derived more effectively from frozen blastocysts than from those blastocysts that are cultured from cleaved embryos.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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