Karp Labs is now in clinical trials now on this solution to re-growing hairs to combat Tinnitus. Presuming it works, it will likely take years before a solution is publicly available but nevertheless it's at least at the clinical trial stage. There's hope.
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Please make this successful and available A.S.A.P.

Thanks for sharing

For anyone looking for an update, I found this article that says:

"In December the company announced the successful completion of a Phase 1 human study of FX-322, Frequency's lead progenitor cell activation drug, demonstrating its safety and tolerability. "We expect to start a Phase 2 clinical study in the second half of 2018," Lucchino said. The company has previously raised $32 million in Series A funding from CoBro Ventures, Morningside Ventures, Alexandria Real Estate Equities and other investors, and expects to begin a Series B round later this year."

Source: CNBC

This is all looking very promising and not all that far off which is great.

I think we would all welcome the day we could unsubscribe from this particular subreddit. :)

Yes one day when there will be a cure this sub will be abandoned I guess.

This was from March 2017 - are there any recent updates?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/hearing-loss-drug-breakthroughs-attract-big-pharma-venture-capital.html

I wonder if this company is publicly traded, would be an interesting investment opportunity if they pull it off.

Agreed especially when you consider that 20% of the population has Tinnitus. The question is, will this be a one-time fix or a pill you take for the rest of your life? If it’s the former, it might not make for a good investment but if it’s the latter, it might.

What if the hair just never stops growing and you have to trim it occasionally when it starts hanging out of your ears? Probably won't be such a great investment then.

Not all hair grows indefinitely long.

How do you know if you have actual damage to the hairs? I assume there's testing procedure for it?

A thorough hearing test would be a good place to start. For me, I don’t have any trouble with my hearing but about 2 years ago my ears started ringing and have never stopped.

I’m a drummer and didn’t use ear plugs when I was a teenager but didn’t have any problems with prolonged ear ringing back then. Of course my mom also has Tinnitus and she was never exposed to prolonged loud noise the way I was.

Perhaps there’s both genetic and environmental factors.

My dad has it but he's had tons of noise exposure over the years between machinery and guns. I've probably listened to loud music too much and had some gun exposure without protection in the past as well (not too much but more than none).

I think aside from listening to too much music I've been safer about my hearing than the average person. I think I only ever went to one concert without earplugs (when I was like 17) and then after that I was always sure to have them. I don't think most people protect their ears at loud concerts and I know people who go to them fairly often that doubt complain of tinnitus.

So it's pretty hard to say, right? When I had a hearing test done there was only apparently slight loss in my right ear compared to my left but both ears were pretty healthy overall.

I think I’m about the same. Drumming of course and a few loud concerts. The hearing test I had as a teenager said I had a slight loss in one ear.

Otoacoustic emission testing is how you test the hairs themselves.

It is now Frequency Therapeutics spear heading this I believe, no longer Karp Labs (I believe Karp was a cofounder of Frequency.)

http://www.frequencytx.com/

How do I get in on this?!?

Contact Karp Labs. You can find them on the web. They are located in Boston.

I don’t see that they’re on trail through the websites . I thought it would start on August

I wrote to them on Facebook and they replied the other day saying that they are in clinical trials now. I get the feeling they don’t update their website that much. The copyright for example still says 2014.