Blindness gets Gene Therapy
This article on ABCnews.com is interesting. A Scientist has created a virus that helps heal blindness, if I understand correctly. From the Article:
“A top eye scientist at the National Institutes of Health has called a new procedure that uses gene therapy to correct a condition that leads to blindness “an exciting development” that could pave the way for additional gene treatments for blindness and other conditions.
But some ophthalmology experts remain skeptical. And with months remaining before the procedure can be declared a success or a failure, the weeks in between will likely be filled with debate, speculation and, possibly, high hopes.
Surgeons at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, led by Robin Ali, a professor, performed the first-of-its-kind procedure Tuesday on Robert Johnson of the United Kingdom, the BBC reported. Johnson was born with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a gene-linked sight disorder that gets worse with age.”
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Hopefully this will lead to other successful treatments and cures for blindness. My brother is blind in one eye, from birth, and doctors have no clue how it happened. Who knows if this will help him and others.
blindness, treatment, infection
blindness, treatment, infection
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