Examining Gene Therapy As Treatment For Blindness

Oct. 30, 2009

Reporting in The Lancet, doctors found success in treating Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare type of blindness, with gene therapy. Study author Katherine High explains how injecting a gene-carrying virus into the eye has improved vision in a handful of patients.

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Examining Gene Therapy As Treatment For Blindness

Congenital blindness gene is identified